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An American Affair Reviews
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011
An earnest, fictional coming-of-age story is squeezed from a bitter, true-life local tragedy. And it works.
| Mar 13, 2009
The title sums up the bland, unimaginative and cliche-laden thriller/coming-of-age tale.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 12, 2009
There are scenes that work here and there, but regrettably not nearly enough to hold the film together. In the end, this affair is definitely not one to remember.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 6, 2009
It's all presented so earnestly... that you barely realize at the time how preposterous it all is. Intrigue! Cubans! The Bay of Pigs! JFK! It's the coming-of-age tale filtered through the mind of Oliver Stone,
| Feb 27, 2009
This is not, by any reasonable definition of the term, a professional film, even though several experienced and established actors have been inveigled to inhabit it
| Feb 27, 2009
Even Oliver Stone would giggle.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2009
Gretchen Mol, lounging semi-nude as she smokes near an open Georgetown window, would spark any young man's curiosity and recklessness. But the assassination story line is absurd.
Full Review | Feb 27, 2009
Subscribes wholeheartedly to the history-as-pornography school of thinking, in which all will be revealed if you can figure out who is sleeping with whom, when and where and what they do in bed.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2009
The Cuban Missile Crisis is a year passed and the assassination is looming, and yet Adam's pubescent crises are given Wagnerian emphasis.
Full Review | Feb 27, 2009
Sketchily written, clumsily directed and poorly acted, even history-conspiracy aficionados will be left cold.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 26, 2009
Only Noah Wyle, as Adam's unreadable dad, rises above the muck; he deserves his Tarantino-aided resurrection sooner rather than later.
| Feb 24, 2009
An unholy genre mutation undreamt of on the isle of Dr. Moreau, An American Affair piggybacks the pubescent sexual awakening sapfest onto the JFK assassination conspiracy thriller.
| Original Score: .5/4 | Feb 23, 2009
The reason to see An American Affair is Gretchen Mol.
| Feb 23, 2009