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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Grimly arresting. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's a movie drama with a surface so bleak and an interior so hot with eroticism that it twists your guts to watch it. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: A compelling study of conscience. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... MacGregor is always riveting, and the final scenes are chilling. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Whether you're talking about Young Adam the movie or young Adam the character, neither is very likable. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Young Adam unfolds with an absolute minimum of dramatic highs and lows, and it's so disaffected that it prompts laughter at the wrong moments. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Mackenzie gamely attempts to translate Trocchi's acid-etched vision, but he lacks the writer's corrosiveness. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The clammy power of Young Adam lies as much in the frank, emotional nakedness the actors bring to their roles under Mackenzie's care as in the baroque hopelessness of the plot. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Mackenzie shoots the ensuing tryst with more fidelity than it deserves or needs. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Its chief asset is its superb cast, especially Ms. Swinton and Mr. McGregor, who gives one of his most dynamic performances to date. Read more
John Powers, L.A. Weekly: For all the symbolic weight of its title, Young Adam doesn't come close to giving us Existence. But it does give us one limited human being. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Mackenzie has made more of an atmosphere study than character study, brimming with brilliantly gray seaport landscapes and green canal-bank vistas. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The story comes up hollow in the end. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Affairs and murder mysteries: sounds intriguing, no? Well, no. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Young Adam makes no sense and doesn't seem to be about anything except dirty floors, splintered fingernails and eye sores. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The narrative scheme, the brooding period atmosphere, the understated score and the precision of the acting also make the story seem more interesting than it is. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: For all its coldness, Young Adam still managed to impress me thanks to the time, the place, and the amoral sobriety and desperate conviction of its central performance. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: The narrative, with its provocative flashbacks, is just interesting enough to propel the movie forward. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Darkly effective, and its grip lasts longer than we might be entirely comfortable with. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is an almost Dostoyevskian study of a man brooding upon evil until it paralyzes him. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: [Swinton's] rich, compelling performance is reason enough to see this uneven picture. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The film's viewpoint on these sad characters and their sordid behavior has an allure that's hard to refute. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Young Adam haunts like a loyalty betrayed or a secret never revealed. Read more
Derek Elley, Variety: A resonant, beautifully modulated relationships drama set amid the canals and gray stone buildings of early '50s Scotland. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Emily Mortimer ... McGregor, and especially Swinton are as frank and fearless with their NC-17 naked bodies as Mackenzie is uncompromised in conveying Trocchi's sulfurous purview on labor and lust to the screen. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: A compelling if singularly sour tale of a young man's moral paralysis. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's a diversion, well crafted by Mackenzie from a book by Alexander Trocchi, but little more than that. Read more