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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxDespite its philosophical pretensions, the film is fairly lightweight, and its good-looking cast and sleek production values are more memorable than any of its heady themes.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsImagine that, instead of trying to solve his wife's murder, the amnesiac character in Christopher Nolan's "Memento" had gone on "50 First Dates." That comes close to describing French director Jean-Pierre Limosin's playfully sexy tale of memory lapse.
- 50Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallThis sounds an awful lot like "Memento." But unlike that movie, the French-Swiss-Spanish-Italian co-production Novo opts for a Eurotrash sex comedy approach instead.
- 50VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungA bizarre combo of upscale French erotica studded with good-humored kinky sex scenes.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenSleek, attractive and ultimately vapid.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceLimosin's elliptical narrative, meant to correlate with his protagonist's blank-slate mind, instead plays as desultory and just plain confused.