As escapist entertainment, Sex and Death 101 has plenty of charm, and the ending is a refreshing surprise.
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03/28/08
Sex and Death 101 (2008)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:10
Rotten:29
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Sex and Death 101 aspires to be a clever sex comedy, but has little life behind the sex or the death.
Synopsis: This amusing sex farce updates age-old concepts about love, sex, and hot lesbians. A new supercomputer (with vague ties to the afterlife) spits out random e-mails that tell when people will die, or... [More]
Starring: Winona Ryder, Simon Baker, Leslie Bibb, Mindy Cohn
Director: Daniel Waters
Reviews for Sex and Death 101
Top CriticHeaven help a writer who turns a philanderer into a blank.
10/18/08
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10/01/08
Admittedly, it doesn't have many belly laughs, but if you're tuned into Waters' peculiar, highly intelligent comedy style it's a fascinating watch.
07/17/08
the monologues near the truly odd ending make you wonder whether Waters had an extreme fever when he was finishing up the script
07/06/08
As a writer, Waters is best-known for creating Ryder's sharp black comedy, Heathers, and Bruce Willis' self-indulgent bomb, Hudson Hawk. As a director, he tends to waste actors, and he fails to establish a consistent comic tone.
04/11/08
Sex and Death falls into the category of those unfortunate films in that it's a schoolboy's wet dream slathered in smug self-back patting and wish-fantasy run amok, all told with the deftness of a piano falling out of the sky and onto our heads.
04/11/08
A fun, sloppy treatment of a profound premise that, as a reunion project between Waters and Ryder, feels right.
04/10/08
There are a lot of laughs, good performances, and points for creativity.
04/07/08
Top CriticNow we know how the dopes in the beer commercials spend their time when they are not drinking their beer. They laugh their socks off at movies like this.
04/04/08
Waters is trying to have his cake and eat it out too.
04/04/08
One of the most pointless films ever made about sex or death.
04/04/08
It's all a pretentious bore that feels twice as long as it's two-hour running time.
04/04/08
Why not simply admit this is cheeseball porn, assembled with a slightly higher brand of cheese and nuts?
04/04/08
This film is headed quickly for DVD. In the video store, though, it isn't funny enough to be shelved in the comedy section nor dirty enough to be filed with the smut.
04/04/08
What a sorry reunion for Ryder and writer-director Daniel Waters, who scripted her far better dark comedy Heathers back in 1989.
04/04/08
The movie aims to be an unbridled sex farce, but the sex is never all that hot and the jokes are rarely all that funny.
04/04/08
The film works hard to be a dark, grown up, romantic comedy (plenty of sex, nudity, bad language and philosophy) and yet it winds up being every bit as childish as most other pictures in the genre.
04/04/08
The comedy grows more and more gratingly cynical and unpleasant.
04/04/08
Neither particularly dark nor even remotely funny.
04/04/08
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