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RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 36% (FRESH = 60% or Greater)   Reviews counted: 14 Fresh: 5  Rotten: 9 Average Rating: 5.2/10

( Showing 1-14 of 14 Tomatometer Reviews, sorted a-z )   "The project is a labor of love, powerfully effective in shining a light on a part of the world from which most would rather avert their eyes." -- Athan Bezaitis, FILMCRITIC.COM   "Nothing about the stories in and of themselves is particularly original, but Rifkin knows how to create atmosphere." -- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES   "Rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a Hubert Selby Jr., but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative." -- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE   "Too bad writer-director Adam Rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the Golden Eagle's carpets." -- Justin Hartung, CITYSEARCH   "This is a dark, gritty, sometimes funny little gem." -- Ron Wells, FILM THREAT   "These are textbook lives of quiet desperation." -- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY   "It's Tommy's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her, and after viewing this one, you'll feel like mopping up, too." -- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES   "Rifkin's references are ... impeccable throughout." -- Chris Wiegand, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE Cream of the Crop ROTTEN 17%   "What little grace [Rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics." -- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE   "One just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters." -- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER   "Never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy, drama, melodrama or some combination of the three." -- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST   "The director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it." -- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES   "Another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues." -- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY   "A modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence." -- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES

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