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 "First-time director João Pedro Rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
"While the transgressive trappings (especially the frank sex scenes) ensure that the film is never dull, Rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought, making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
 "It extends the writings of Jean Genet and John Rechy, the films of Fassbinder, perhaps even the nocturnal works of Goya."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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"Although purportedly a study in modern alienation, it’s really little more than a particularly slanted, gay s/m fantasy, enervating and deadeningly drawn-out."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"The most audacious, outrageous, sexually explicit, psychologically probing, pure libido film of the year has arrived from Portugal."
-- Brandon Judell, POPCORNQ
"This odd, distant Portuguese import more or less borrows from Bad Lieutenant and Les Vampires, and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "O Fantasma" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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