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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
The reason to see An American Affair is Gretchen Mol. She has a mild, natural way of holding herself that's likably unactressy--in every film, she seems both smart and grounded. Read full review
The film rises above its conventions. Just when it seems to be a fable of sexual initiation, An American Affair pivots away from sex. Just when it seems to be a re-dredging of the Kennedy mystique, it pushes past history. Thoughtfully and imperfectly, it dramatizes the flight from childhood, the surrender to adulthood and the pieces of us that survive. Read full review
A coming-of-age tale and a JFK assassination conspiracy movie. The first half of that equation works nicely...But the assassination story line is absurd. Read full review
A mess of a film that can't quite figure out what it wants to be: an illicit love story, a political thriller or a coming-of-age set piece Read full review
Only Noah Wyle, as Adam's unreadable dad, rises above the muck; he deserves his Tarantino-aided resurrection sooner rather than later. Read full review
An American Affair is sordid business blandly portrayed and not worth meddling with. Read full review
Like many aspects of An American Affair, the music and the lopsided dramatic priorities take the viewer right out of the movie. Read full review
Were it a farce instead of an earnest, paranoid thriller with pretensions to historicity, An American Affair might not seem so offensively exploitative. The fact that it is quite well acted, especially by Ms. Mol, who has the air of a sophisticated 1960s party animal down pat, only compounds the insult. Read full review
This is one of those films in which almost every element is done in such an embarrassingly amateurish way, you want to put it out of its misery. Read full review
I have no idea how such shameless prattle found its way to the screen. Read full review
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Peeping teen meets JFK's mistress. Read full review