Two Girls and a Guy 1998

Critics score:
52 / 100

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Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Downey's last scene knocks the wind out of you: You may feel you need a moment or two before you can get up out of your seat. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Robert Downey Jr.'s Blake Allen is enough of a raging dynamo to find the dark humor and desperate romanticism at the heart of Mr. Toback's ego trip of a premise, and to make Blake sympathetic too. Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Writer-director James Toback must believe his audience is hopelessly prudish if he thinks this pedantic story, which takes place over several hours in a Manhattan loft, is provocative. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: You gotta admire a director who can come up with a way to hang out in such luxurious digs for two weeks, acting out sexual situations with three of the dishiest young actors in the business. Read more

Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times: A small movie with some big moments and a lot of unfinished business. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Read more

David Denby, New York Magazine/Vulture: Two Girls and a Guy isn't a satisfying movie, but Downey is alarmingly brilliant in it. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Toback has somehow managed to prolong and expand this sketchy egg-on-your-face situation with a series of unexpected ironies and power role reversals that are not without wit, humor and intelligence. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sometimes the story behind a movie can bring an angle to what's on the screen. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Wagner doesn't wink at the audience to let it know she's not as ignorant and naive as the character she plays. It's a performance that risks being misunderstood, and it probably will be. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A thoroughly engrossing, intelligent and enjoyable experience. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: A lively, if slender, perpetuation of the battle between the sexes on a modern battleground. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: An edgy, gabby, salaciously subversive sex farce. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The young actresses Graham and Wagner here create two characters who feel whole, distinct and weighty. Read more