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 "The subject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Sex With Strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness. But what is missing from it all is a moral. What is the filmmakers’ point? Why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery?"
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
 "While we see a lot of clammy groping and creepy parties, we also witness the couples going through their inevitable emotional traumas even as they struggle to sublimate their spiritual needs into sex."
-- John Dentino, L.A. WEEKLY
"Directors Harry Gantz and Joe Gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter, but the couples exposing themselves aren’t all that interesting."
-- Gator MacReady, IOFILM.CO.UK
"The Gantzes' interviews tend to let the guys off the hook."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"You emerge dazed, confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"As it stands, there's some fine sex onscreen, and some tense arguing, but not a whole lot more."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"Grueling."
-- LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
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-- REEL.COM
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"It leers, offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"If you want to see a train wreck that you can’t look away from, then look no further, because here it is."
-- Eric Campos, FILM THREAT
"Couples titillated by the possibility of swinging will probably leave the theater gripping each other's hands a little more tightly."
-- Erik Lundegaard, SEATTLE TIMES
"Psychologically revealing."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"If you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies, what Sex With Strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"An empty, purposeless exercise."
-- Luisa F. Ribeiro, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Swinging, the film makes it seem, is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit. Or intelligent."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"The cold shower of swinger documentaries."
-- E! ONLINE
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Avg. Rating: 5.6/10 |
"It's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking good."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"I didn't find much fascination in the swinging. What they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games, of no erotic or sensuous charge. But that they are doing it is thought-provoking."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A film that forces you to bring along and confront your own sexual mores, whether you like it or not."
-- Robert K. Elder, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of Job to get through this interminable, shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"It's the element of condescension, as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch, that finally makes Sex With Strangers, which opens today in the New York metropolitan area, so distasteful."
-- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES
"As a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle, Sex with Strangers is a success."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"The result is more depressing than liberating, but it's never boring."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Sex With Strangers is fascinating ..."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"It's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue, only to be revealed by the dispassionate Gantz brothers as ordinary, pasty lumpen."
-- Tom Sime, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Choppy, overlong documentary about 'The Lifestyle.'"
-- Jessica Winter, VILLAGE VOICE
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-- ARIZONA REPUBLIC
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