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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Film Threat | Phil Hall

    Provocative and poignant. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    At once a tender love story and a psychological suspense drama that lays bare the acute tensions that threaten to tear apart an upwardly mobile suburban L.A. Chinese American family. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Messy admixtures of drama and mockery crucially undermine pic's serious message. Read full review

  • 40
    TV Guide | Ken Fox

    Lee obviously wants to portray Ethan as something other than the dutiful No. 1 son, but Ethan isn't entirely convincing as a doped-up street hustler. Read full review

  • 40
    The Onion A.V. Club | Scott Tobias

    Without contrivances, the movie would only run about five minutes. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times |

    By the time we reach the "Butch Cassidy"-inspired climax, any filaments of credibility still clinging to these characters have completely disappeared. Read full review

  • 25
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    The one highlight is Julia Nickson, who breathes life into the role of Ethan's evil stepmom. Read full review

  • 20
    L.A. Weekly |

    Nobody onscreen seems to realize that this deadeningly self-serious treatment of family dysfunction is so overwrought that it becomes a spot-on satire of low-budget ineptitude. Read full review

  • 20
    Village Voice |

    An exhausting exercise in genre mixing. Read full review

  • 0
    San Francisco Chronicle | John McMurtrie

    Desperately wants to deal dramatically with the legitimate issues of homosexuality, tolerance, homelessness and drug use. But to do so, the movie, like Ethan, would first need to grow up. Read full review

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