it's a world that should only be seen in the dark

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2004

The rueful humor, feverish desperation, hard-won glory and simple monotony inherent in gay male desire have rarely been more trenchantly captured.

| Feb 7, 2004

A provocative examination of the cinematic relationship between the viewer and the viewed.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 5, 2004

Porn Theatre is exactly that, no surprises.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 16, 2004

If nothing else, your curiosity should be sadly satisfied.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2003

Repugnant in its salacious superficiality, Porn Theatre manages to be boring and vile beneath its transparent veil of artistic pretense.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Dec 12, 2003

Even those titillated by the graphic sex will have to admit that the movie is repetitive and ultimately boring.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 12, 2003

Most of the film is as grim and unpleasant as...well, spending 90 minutes in an actual porn theatre.

| Dec 4, 2003

Porn Theatre, as the title suggests, is not for the sexually conservative. Not even for the sexually moderate liberal. It is, however, for the right crowd in the right mood, a very fine film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2003

Porn Theater is revealing only physically, not emotionally or intellectually.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 21, 2003

Tracks the goings and particularly the comings among a group of male patrons at a seedy Paris porn theater, but bored audiences enduring this talky, aimless film might wish that they, too, were watching the porno film that is seen only in brief snippets.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2003

In any language Porn Theatre is a sleazily charming attraction.

| Oct 22, 2003

Porn Theater is not for everyone, but the open-minded should find it enlightening as well as entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2003

Offers little insight into the strange gender game that's played out in the dark safety of the porn theater.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2003

Porn Theater functions best in its voyeuristic, sociological mode, offering fragmentary glimpses of complicated lives and the complicated social rituals that shape them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2003

A yawn.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2003

A clear-eyed, somewhat bitter, always entertaining visit to the dark side of town.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 10, 2003

Knowingly antiquated in a world of Internet porn, it taps into the sepulchral undercurrents of communal spectatorship.

| Oct 8, 2003

I really enjoyed Porn Theater, despite being disgusted by it several times, because it didn't hold back and forced audience members to make a choice - walk out and peg yourself as a prude, or stay and take it and find the story?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2003

It feels rambling and pointless, but it's still somewhat entertaining.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 16, 2003