James Toback's long-gestating portrait of a one-track mind becomes bogged down in unconvincing plot mechanics.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
27 Feb 2008
rotten:
The film roams from the Upper West Side to Coney Island to Atlantic City, maintaining a lighthearted style that doesn't quite match the hints of obsessiveness in Mr. Toback's screenplay.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
This is an appallingly silly movie, from its juvenile comic overture to its dreadfully sincere conclusion.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A light and fairly innocuous youth picture.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Pickup's 'little more' is in its quirky characters and its intentionally goofy melodrama.