Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.
Hard Candy is an exploitation film, with very little happening but a guy getting tortured for about 75 minutes of screen time.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Apr 2006
fresh:
... a film that gives you something to think about, raising questions that linger long after the theater lights have brightened.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
28 Apr 2006
fresh:
It's well worth seeing, because it is well made -- apart from a few gaps in logic -- and well acted.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
28 Apr 2006
rotten:
Packaged in an increasingly lurid, credibility-free storyline, delivered with unstinting insensitivity by a first-time director determined to show off his ad-man's box of visual tics.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Personally, I'd rather have this movie obliterated from my memory.