Thom Fitzgerald has taken a giant stride forward in this three-part/three-country parable of the insidious effect of the AIDS virus...

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Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 22, 2007

As a movie with an important message, 3 Needles is an idiotic waste of time.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 27, 2007

great performances and the heartbreaking dilemmas

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2007

A marginally involving dramatization of how peopledeal with AIDS in 3 separate cultures

| Original Score: B- | Dec 22, 2006

Making serious points about serious issues, the film underscores repeatedly the need for personal and official vigilance concerning "the virus,"

Full Review | Dec 21, 2006

3 Needles is a case of diminishing returns with the first story of blood running in China the best and the last, set in Africa, the least compelling.

| Original Score: C | Dec 3, 2006

Three riveting dramas about the AIDS crisis set in South Africa, China, and Canada that open our eyes and our hearts to victims of this dread disease.

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

The situations are contrived, the ironies are cheap, and the dialogue is overly blunt.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Dec 2, 2006

So manipulative and sloppy that it left me more angry at writer-director Thom Fitzgerald than the tragic topic being mishandled onscreen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2006

Demonstrates that the transmission of HIV has become an uncontrollable global pandemic that feeds on poverty and recognizes no sexual, national or religious borders.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 1, 2006

If nothing else, [director Thom] Fitzgerald has demonstrated how huge a challenge the AIDS epidemic is on a worldwide scale, and how it will take a concerted, intelligent effort to solve it. It'll take a lot more than throwing money around.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

3 Needles is difficult to take at times, but it ultimately rewards those viewers willing to meet its challenges.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Only the African story feels complete, while the Chinese story is gloomily hopeless and the Montreal story is just a bad idea. 3 Needles is not about AIDS; it's about the exploitation of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 1, 2006

3 Needles, Thom Fitzgerald's globe-spanning investigation of the effects of AIDS, may ultimately be a call to unity, but there's an extreme amount of despair and misery before we get to hear that trumpet blare.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Broad in scope and at times visually stunning, [director Thom] Fitzgerald's project is ambitious but lacks cohesion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

It's hard to know what exactly the movie means with a lot of the choices it makes, even if, ultimately, it means well.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Nothing is as irritating as watching a film which is little more than an exercise of ego; worse is watching one that is about as discrete in its purpose as a missionary in Africa.

| Dec 1, 2006

It's gorgeously filmed, but its character logic very rarely makes any sense.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2006

I'd love a peek at the keyboard Fitzgerald uses to conjure his screeds: I've never seen one sledgehammered into dust and splinters before.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Nov 30, 2006