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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Total Film (3,532) on 10 Sep 2012

Too unsexy for a date movie, too much fingering for a see-with-your-mum movie…

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By Steve Newall (155) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 05 Sep 2012

Hysteria goes through the motions without eliciting much of a reaction despite its seemingly racy subject matter…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 25 Aug 2012

More titillating than provocative, and lacking wit to make this tale of inventing the vibrator more significant and entertaining as serio-comedy…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 28 Jul 2012

A sly yet seriously mounted comedy that plays like a post-war Ealing Studios pin-prick satire of British character and society…

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By Cj Johnson (473) for ABC Radio (Australia) (677) on 16 Jul 2012

It's a tall tale that happens to be true, and, in the right hands, it could be wonderfully funny. I'm not sure that Wexler's were the right hands…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 12 Jul 2012

While there have been a lot of films of late involving human-machine interaction, Hysteria serves as an overdue reminder that mechanical devices…

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By Simon Foster (434) for sbs.com.au (697) on 11 Jul 2012

It's a terrible shame that the back-story to one of the most influential personal devices of the last 100 years was told with such puerile pedantry…

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By David Stratton (799) for At the Movies (Australia) (716) on 10 Jul 2012

Everyone else seems a bit daunted by the subject matter…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 06 Jul 2012

Carefully composed images, excellent period costumes and a nice, frilly score decorate the film to such an extent it becomes wholesome and staid…

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By Blake Howard (505) for 2UE That Movie Show (314) on 04 Jul 2012

Hysteria is a clever satire about the birth of the world's most popular sex toy, and despite some clunky rom-com plot devices it was refreshing…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 18 Jun 2012

The movie is most entertaining during its pre-vibrator sequences, which generate laughs by presenting risqué material within the very civilized…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 14 Jun 2012

Loosely wrapped into this true story is the invention of the first vibrator. The film, however, generates very little buzz…

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By Clint O'connor (453) for Cleveland Plain Dealer (828) on 14 Jun 2012

Yes, the vibrator jokes start to wear thin, but Hysteria is still lightweight fun…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 14 Jun 2012

The joy of Hysteria, like the joy of certain other things, isn't necessarily rooted in the element of surprise…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Jun 2012

Rather born to wear a frock coat, Dancy shares the stammer-blush, winning-grin methodology of countryman Hugh Grant, only with more probity…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 14 Jun 2012

Director Tanya Wexler plays things broadly at times, but Hysteria has good fun with history while coming off far more wholesome than salacious…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 13 Jun 2012

What could have been a bawdy feature about the repression of not only female sexuality, but also women's rights, is at times as tightly wound…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 13 Jun 2012

Director Tanya Wexler engages in some quick, unsubtle ribbing about Victorian views of sexuality and gender…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 13 Jun 2012

Its 95 minutes move along nicely, and Everett - languid as a cat in a sunbeam - makes his too-brief scenes into master classes of comedy…

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By Matt Soergel (215) for Florida Times-Union (216) on 13 Jun 2012

Has enough energy to tickle the fancy of any Anglophile…

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