Lifshitz successfully maneuvers his trio of outcasts toward a state of grace: His vision of misfit utopianism, in its own quiet way, is as defiant as anything in Fassbinder.
– Dennis Lim,
Village Voice,
7 Jun 2005
fresh:
Viewers are either going to walk out after 10 minutes or, like this tolerant critic, get caught up in the sordid lives of the three misfits and stick around for the ambiguous ending.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
10 Jun 2005
rotten:
A morbid and self-important homosexual Jules & Jim for the new millennium.