| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Welsey Morris |
"...told in a serenely observational fashion..." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"Ledger...is alive and awake and interesting..." more... |
B- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...even as they spiral inevitably downward from ecstasy to hell -- she turns tricks, he steals -- they somehow still look really attractive, which is a ridiculous thing." more... |
C |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"Even if, in the end, Candy has not much new to say about its disaffected junkie lovebirds, it at least understands what it is that puts people like them into this situation." more... |
B- |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"Watching the sludgy story trickle to a stop, I thought: I've gotten more of a buzz from a can of Dr Pepper." more... |
C |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...doesn't add anything substantively new to the story of heroin addiction, though it does feature striking performances from Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...the acting couldn't be better." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...goes down more easily than seems possible given the subject matter." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"...directed not with a slap of tragedy but a resigned sigh." more... |
C+ |
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