46
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ObserverRex ReedObserverRex ReedThe film investigates a gallery of kinks, fetishes, oddball turn-ons, and pent up sexual repressions like somnophilia (sex with someone who is asleep), dacryphilia (tears and sobbing), unconventional role-playing, and worse. The results are sad and often laugh-out-loud funny.
- 67The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe Little Death never feels remotely of a piece, and is likely to find its proper audience months from now when the individual sketches show up on YouTube.
- 60Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAlternately silly and provocative, strained and funny.
- 50VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangThe actors are all game and well paired, but flashes of chemistry and an appreciable level of production finesse (courtesy of d.p. Simon Chapman and composer Michael Yezerski) aren’t enough to bring the requisite charge to this flimsy, pseudo-provocative material.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenIt's perched uneasily on a fence separating a rote comic sketch film from something weirder, stranger, and less engaged with offering reassuring domestic homilies.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreA broad, goofy primer on the not-quite-cutting-edge of consensual adult sexuality.
- 50Village VoiceAbby GarnettVillage VoiceAbby GarnettLawson's wishy-washiness about tone doesn't prevent the actors from nailing the comic exchanges.
- 50The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasGenerally speaking, the more obscure the fetish, the worse the subplot gets, though they all wear out their one-joke welcome before Lawson inevitably turns up the sentiment and makes the film about love and kids and happy unions.
- 40The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldThe New York TimesDaniel M. GoldThe only sketch that’s inspired is the final one.
- 38New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmeSex comedies work best with light touch, and as the ponderous title (a literal translation of the French term for orgasm) indicates, Australian writer-director Josh Lawson mostly doesn’t have it.