Ai no mukidashi 2009

Critics score:
90 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Exhibiting astonishing dexterity, Mr. Sono shapes all this trauma into a narrative that's completely coherent and surprisingly touching, never more so than in Yu's struggle toward sexual maturity. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Love Exposure plays like a marathon greatest-hits-and-misses mixtape. If you see only one Sono film, check out this flick; you will have then seen them all. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Would the film be easier to take in a more condensed form? Of course it would, but then it wouldn't be the singularly overwhelming oddity that it is. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: It's a campy rampage that runs a few minutes shy of four hours, dooming what otherwise would likely be a bright future as a midnight movie. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: As the old cliche goes, you will not have another moviegoing experience quite like this one all year. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: A swooning, often riotously funny melodrama charged with a refreshingly perverse undertow. Read more