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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasJulie Davis' story is fresh and amusing.
- 63New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanIts bawdy honesty eventually gives way to convention, sentimentality and a frustratingly silly ending.
- 60Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonDavis has energy, but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing, the gender-war ideas original, or the comic scenes fly. Instead, the film is buttressed by song montages and jokey chapter titles.
- 50Film ThreatFilm ThreatWill strike a chord with people having mid-life love crises. Maybe for them, this film will stand as a sign that love is out there and it will prevail. As any other type of audience goes, I don’t think they’ll find that this love works.
- 50The New York TimesDave KehrThe New York TimesDave KehrThis movie is Ms. Davis's fourth film as a director, and she has a bright, chipper style that keeps things moving, while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race. Like someone who smiles too much, Amy's Orgasm seems rather sad at heart.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe orgasm, it turns out, is low on the list of Amy's issues. The title is faked.
- 40TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxDavis not only wrote and directed the film but edited it as well, all of which is no mean feat. Too bad she couldn't have lent some of her own gumption and self-assurance to her pathetic heroine.
- 30L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmIt's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah.
- 25New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThere's definitely room for a female Woody Allen, an accolade garnered by a previous film. However, Amy's Orgasm is chirpy, shrill and coarse, more in the vein of one of Allen's more depressed periods.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarrit IngmanAustin ChronicleMarrit IngmanThere's a bright spot in the form of Amy's publicist (screen veteran Aaron), a salty, whiskey-voiced lesbian; it's a pity the movie isn't about her.