| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

As a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled (literally and figuratively) by desire ... [Sex and Luca] makes for an arousing good time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Perhaps our confusion is part of the whole idea, but Sex and Lucia would have a lot more impact if there were someone to give a damn about.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Nov 7, 2002

While it's being the told, the story of Sex And Lucia is sufficiently seductive to keep you from noticing the holes forming in its universe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2002

It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2002

What distinguishes Julio Medem's humid, magic-realist eroticon from the average soft-core fare is its writer-director's playful interest in storytelling as a form of sexual sublimation and release.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2002

A lot rides on coincidence. Or fate. Or the magic pull of the moon. It all makes sense in the end.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 23, 2002

Unfortunately, the plot becomes such a puzzle that the central characters lose their urgency and the movie overstays its welcome.

| Aug 16, 2002

A byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2002

While the final picture may not be quite as grand as expected upon completion, the individual pieces remain strikingly beautiful.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 8, 2002

I would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation, but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 2, 2002

Pretty darn good, despite its smarty-pants aura.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2002

Between bedroom scenes, viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 26, 2002

Half-baked ponderings on the nature of fiction and reality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 26, 2002

[Medem] likes to toy with the mind of the audience, and he's good at it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2002

Medem packs it with so much stunning, wildly colorful imagery -- and so much sex -- that it transfixes you even when you're not quite sure what's going on.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2002

Despite his self-consciously obscure plot mechanics, Medem keeps you off-balance and intrigued.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2002

An erotic but muddled marriage of fact and fiction, love and memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2002

Sexy but pretentious melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2002