Lost and Delirious 2001

Critics score:
51 / 100

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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: The people who made this movie apparently aren't satisfied just to let you see something when they can talk about it too. Read more

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: Weighty stuff for the Bring It On or Legally Blonde summer crowd. For the rest, Lost and Delirious is a welcome antidote. Read more

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Their characters may feel lost, but Ms. Perabo and Ms. Pare rank among the finds of the year. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Barely skirting the lip of the ridiculous. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: It often has a camp ludicrousness, evoking an 'Afterschool Special' inspired by the pages of Penthouse Forum. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The film's title refers to its heroine but ends up describing the movie itself. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Its treatment of the operatic highs and lows of young love and heartbreak feels right emotionally, even though the film tells its story rather awkwardly. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Evokes the intimacies of teenage girls with unusual delicacy, and Perabo's performance is a geyser of emotion. Read more

Kevin Courrier, Globe and Mail: Pool and Thompson have turned a tough-minded, solid narrative into a campy piece of kitsch that panders to teenage angst. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: It's a good, slick film, if less interesting then Pool's earlier, more personal French-language efforts. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Stirred within me memories of that season in adolescence when the heart leaps up in passionate idealism -- and inevitably mingles it with sexual desire. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Pool captures the crazed urgency of first love -- the feeling of a passion so fierce that even a disapproving society can't crush it. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: Pool can't avoid force-feeding us metaphors -- avian to Shakespearean -- whenever she wants. Read more

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Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Cumulatively excruciating in its mawkish symbolism ... quasifeminist posturing (men bad!), and strenuous heterophobia. Read more