Rotten
The situations are contrived, the ironies are cheap, and the dialogue is overly blunt.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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3 Needles
Overview
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety
Director and cast
- Thom Fitzgerald Director
- Chloë Sevigny as Clara the Novice
- Shawn Ashmore as Denys
- Stockard Channing as Olive Cowie
- Lucy Liu as Jin Ping
- Olympia Dukakis as Hilde
- Simone-Elise Girard as Porn Actor
- Chin Han as Soldier Xuan
- Sandra Oh as Mary the Nun
- Sook-Yin Lee as Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
- Tyson Hall Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
36%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If nothing else, [director Thom] Fitzgerald has demonstrated how huge a challenge the AIDS epidemic is on a worldwide scale, and how it will take a concerted, intelligent effort to solve it. It'll take a lot more than throwing money around.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
Only the African story feels complete, while the Chinese story is gloomily hopeless and the Montreal story is just a bad idea. 3 Needles is not about AIDS; it's about the exploitation of it.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Rotten
Broad in scope and at times visually stunning, [director Thom] Fitzgerald's project is ambitious but lacks cohesion.
Teresa Budasi, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
It's hard to know what exactly the movie means with a lot of the choices it makes, even if, ultimately, it means well.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
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