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Psychopathia Sexualis (2006)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:3
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 8, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Employing a complex multi-narrative structure, Psychopathia Sexualis dramatizes case histories of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, drawn from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious... [More]
Starring: Jane Bass, Bryan Davis, Veronika Duerr, Sandra L. Hughes
Director: Bret Wood
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Reviews for Psychopathia Sexualis
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Manages to be provocative without being exploitative. Full Review |
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It’s a mildly enjoyable romp. Full Review |
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 1.5/4 |
Lugubrious to the extreme of unintended comedy, the movie suggests a regional dinner theater production of a late- ' 80s Peter Greenaway film. Full Review |
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C- |
The turgid accumulation of tedious sex just bores. Full Review |
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Psychopathia Sexualis seems both plodding and snickering in its almost comically tepid rendering of masochism, homosexuality, Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Lurid though the material is, the film is scrupulously anti-erotic. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Psychopathia Sexualis isn't sexy enough to be soft porn. Neither will it cause an excess of cerebral stimulation. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
What Woods achieves in his arch, velvet-cushioned vignettes is a sense of the subjects being reduced to symptom and diagnosis. Full Review |
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C+ |
It's hardly revolutionary or revealing and Wood is more craftsman than storyteller or cinema essayist. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Not even necrophilia and the imaginative deployment of leeches can relieve this exercise in unrelenting dullness.
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1/4 |
Sex can be fun and exciting and wonderful. It also can be deadly boring, as in Pschopathia Sexualis. Full Review |
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...it's clear from the pedantic tone of the dramatic re-enactments (imagine an adult History Channel) that writer-director Bret Wood believes he's showing us the sexual revolution's Magna Carta. Full Review |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about sexual perversity but were afraid to ask is on anemic display in Bret Wood's new film. Full Review |
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