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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe politics get pretty short shrift, but cigarettes and liquor are everywhere.
- 40L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonThis peculiar little comedy, shot on digital video, gets points for editorial pizzazz, but earns a big zero for content.
- 40The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderThe New York TimesLawrence Van GelderStructurally, Sex, Politics and Cocktails is wildly, almost frantically inventive, with techniques ranging from stop-motion to split-screen to silent film-style intertitles. But no amount of directorial trickery can mask the essential vacuousness of the story and its characters.
- 38New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanEnthusiastic performances help, but without a logical script or confident direction, the fizz very quickly goes flat.
- 30Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderThe result is TV flavored, less a narrative than a haphazard succession of vignettes populated by crude stereotypes instead of credible characters.
- 10Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasJulien Hernandez's Sex, Politics & Cocktails gives all three a bad name.
- 10Village VoiceVillage VoiceOverwhelmingly poor camerawork helps obscure the deficiencies in the dialogue but can't conceal a sparse plot stretched to feature length by an endless parade of lame sketches.
- 0New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickA relentlessly dull film that's shot on eyeball-gougingly ugly digital video.