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Metascore
12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasJulie Davis' story is fresh and amusing.
- 63New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanIts bawdy honesty eventually gives way to convention, sentimentality and a frustratingly silly ending.
- 60Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonDavis has energy, but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing, the gender-war ideas original, or the comic scenes fly. Instead, the film is buttressed by song montages and jokey chapter titles.
- 50Film ThreatFilm ThreatWill strike a chord with people having mid-life love crises. Maybe for them, this film will stand as a sign that love is out there and it will prevail. As any other type of audience goes, I don’t think they’ll find that this love works.
- 50The New York TimesDave KehrThe New York TimesDave KehrThis movie is Ms. Davis's fourth film as a director, and she has a bright, chipper style that keeps things moving, while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race. Like someone who smiles too much, Amy's Orgasm seems rather sad at heart.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe orgasm, it turns out, is low on the list of Amy's issues. The title is faked.
- 30L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmIt's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah.
- 25New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThere's definitely room for a female Woody Allen, an accolade garnered by a previous film. However, Amy's Orgasm is chirpy, shrill and coarse, more in the vein of one of Allen's more depressed periods.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarrit IngmanAustin ChronicleMarrit IngmanThere's a bright spot in the form of Amy's publicist (screen veteran Aaron), a salty, whiskey-voiced lesbian; it's a pity the movie isn't about her.