Harvard Man 2001

Critics score:
33 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This movie is so bad, that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad. Read more

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: Toback offers a complex, borderline campy, and oddly entertaining study of modern moral dilemmas. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: It has a caffeinated, sloppy brilliance, sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care, but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: By turns pretentious, fascinating, ludicrous, provocative and vainglorious. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing. Read more

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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The attempt is courageous, even if the result is wildly uneven. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Grenier is terrific, bringing an unforced, rapid-fire delivery to Toback's Heidegger- and Nietzsche-referencing dialogue. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What makes the movie work is that the premise, which sounds like a comedy, is treated with the seriousness of life and death. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's exactly the kind of movie Toback's detractors always accuse him of making. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Has everything you could ever want from a Toback movie: lurid sex, shocking excess and an out-of- nowhere thoughtfulness that's not put on. Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Characteristic of Toback in that there's no telling whether he doesn't care to wrestle his totems into any kind of meaningful order or if he simply doesn't know how. Read more