Hysteria Reviews

Movie Reviews

• won’t rock your world, but it’s a perfectly good stand-in until something better comes along

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• too bad the entire movie hadn't simply concentrated on her, and eliminated all the rest of this awkward fumbling around

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• the script captures some delicate and intelligent facets of a period that was tensely conflicted and impossible to reconcile

  by Sara Maria Vizcarrondo [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• the most tasteful of explicit dramatization

  Review rate : A- by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• such a simple and good-natured movie that any animosity rolls away and the worst it can do is cause you to roll your eyes

  Review rate : C+ by Matt Goldberg [Collider.com ]

• proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding viewers how much progress has been made since the Victorian era

  by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice ]

• not nearly as outrageous or unconventional as its premise might suggest, but saucy and enjoyable all the same

  by David Rooney [Hollywood Reporter ]

• not actively unpleasant to sit through for the most part, but not particularly engaging or illuminating or charming

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• her film has been buffed and tweaked into a coy, heavily costumed farce

  by Jeannette Catsoulis [NPR ]

• for all of its sexual posturing and potential to be truly saucy and unconventional, Tanya Wexler's "Hysteria" is inoffensively pleasant

  Review rate : C by Kevin Jagernauth [The Palylist ]

• comes across as a rather superficial brand of art house comedy that offers moderate entertainment value but little more

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]
• Reviewed by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
• Reviewed by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

Reader's Reviews

How many stars? 1 [Very Bad] 2 3 4 5 [Excellent]

   

Comment *