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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 20 Oct 2006

Gets points for originality of design, but as is often the case with scripts written by committee, the execution is dramatically uninteresting…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 19 Oct 2006

Lancingly funny, brash and alive, this hotsie-totsie peeper aches for love, and the gay fire of pre-AIDs partydom…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 19 Oct 2006

Indulgent, immature, self-preoccupied and downright silly a good deal of the time, Shortbus manages to make sex look like no fun at all…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 19 Oct 2006

Surprisingly sweet and unabashedly graphic…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 18 Oct 2006

Mitchell's gift as a filmmaker is to take people who seem way out and show us they're actually looking for the same things we all are…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 18 Oct 2006

It's actually a rather sweet and sharply funny ode to sexual liberation, and I suppose it wouldn't make sense that a film celebrating the freedom…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 18 Oct 2006

Mitchell's gift as a filmmaker is to take people who seem way out and show us they're actually looking for the same things we all are…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 13 Oct 2006

The premise of this story is pretty fascinating but it seems that it gets diluted, not enhanced by the sheer amount of sex…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Oct 2006

I must admit I found Shortbus to be an unsuccessful hybrid -- effective neither as porn (it's often strangely unerotic) nor as art or storytelling…

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By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 12 Oct 2006

Despite the buzz about its hard-core hanky-panky, writer-director John Cameron Mitchell paints a bland, bleak portrait of navel-gazing New…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 12 Oct 2006

It would have helped had the characters in Shortbus been a little more interesting than the sexual positions in which they frequently find…

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By Mario Tarradell (36) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 12 Oct 2006

It's more than a porno movie with a plot. The reality of the heart manages to always temper the allure of the flesh. Ultimately, Mr…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 12 Oct 2006

In Shortbus, the impish writer-director John Cameron Mitchell does the unthinkable: He puts the joy back in movie sex…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 11 Oct 2006

The premise -- a roundelay of New Yorkers looking for connection, or to escape it -- feels tired, and Mitchell's portrayal of sex as the ultimate…

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By Brian Juergens (209) for Freeze Dried Movies (80) on 11 Oct 2006

A fun ride with a satisfying finish. Appropriately enough…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 10 Oct 2006

the largest and most impressive organ on display in Shortbus is the movie's heart…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 07 Oct 2006

Shortbus is sexually explicit, yes, but it is more about the people portrayed and how they cope with their ever-changing lives as they find…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 06 Oct 2006

If viewers can get past the fact that everything here is utterly explicit, there's a lot of funny and sweet material, although the relationship…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 05 Oct 2006

Some viewers will call the whole business pornography, though it doesn't really qualify…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 05 Oct 2006

A sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City…

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