I Can't Think Straight Reviews

If the plot is cheese, it never rises above the level of a Dairylea triangle

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

She is still some way short of making a movie that deserves a ticket-buying audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Both films are politically daring as well as what used to be called risque. Neither, I'm afraid, is well directed or acted.

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The director struggles to inject much energy or spark into the story. Which is frustrating for a premise with this much potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's such a mish-mash of terrible ideas next to sincere and affecting themes that it never really works and repeatedly sabotages any recommendation.

| Original Score: 1/5

From the wince-inducing title onwards, the script is laughably bad, especially when it attempts seriousnes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/6

A should-have-been straight-to-DVD film that ticks enough boxes to make its cinema release an example of affirmative action.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

I Can't Think Straight, a glossy contemporary cross-cultural romance between a Palestinian Christian girl and an Anglo-Indian Muslim girl, is spectacularly dreadful.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Frankly this looks more like Dynasty, with some very broad, soapy acting, coy sex scenes and some airily conspicuous wealth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

This one's got it's heart in the right place...but little else to recommend it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Deep stuff, then, but imbued with all the weight of a prawn cracker. Its explosive coming-out scene can't compensate for car crash acting. Sadly, great sounding drivel is still drivel.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Writer-director Shamim Sarif can't seem to make up her mind whether she is making a comedy or a serious point about Muslim attitudes to lesbianism. And so she ends up with a fluffy mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Lisa Ray provides the one spark of life in an otherwise drab, graceless production that appears to be set in the Eighties and has the feel of a bad Jilly Cooper novel.

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This lesbian love story is never less than watchable, thanks to a captivating central performance by Lisa Ray, though the script and direction leave a lot to be desired.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's all very sex-lite - one character even does what Eamonn Holmes did last year, confusing lesbian with Lebanese.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Glossy and lacking depth as it trivializes every subject it touches.

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Lipstick lesbianism among Muslims is the theme of this unfortunately blown chance to say something real and new. Shamim Sarif's film as fluffily lightweight as Deepa Mehta's Fire was dark and dire.

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Buildings and their interiors fare a lot better in this sumptuously lensed and set-designed film. That's because they don't have to talk or act.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This is a tasteful, romantic lesbian flick, and neither romance nor taste is a substitute for hot naked lesbians getting it on.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.

| Original Score: 2/5