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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoA Hole in My Heart will disgust many (probably most) viewers as it cements Moodysson's reputation as one of today's most daring filmmakers.
- 70Film ThreatFilm ThreatNot a film for the faint of heart… A Hole in My Heart is a cinematic challenge that eats slowly at the soul but never insults the audience or its characters.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanTo call Lukas Moodysson's A Hole in My Heart the feel-bad movie of the year would be an understatement -- it's the feel-sick movie of the millennium.
- 30The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneThis is the first occasion on which Moodysson has lost his balance, allowing his wrath to outweigh the charity that he used to extend to even the most boorish of his characters.
- 20The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisMr. Moodysson may believe that he can stick it to the audience politically by sticking it to his characters. But like most film directors who commit to this strategy, his tactics come across as both naïve and wildly self-indulgent, while his fascination with the spectacle of the corrupt and the cruel is simply tedious.
- 10The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAn experimental, transgressive work that pretty much fails on every level, A Hole in My Heart, depicting the efforts of a trio of amateur porn filmmakers, eventually will be considered a minor footnote to a talented director's career. In the meantime, it's the audience members that will have to suffer.
- 0Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanAn unrelentingly crass and confrontational barf bomb that makes Lars von Trier's "The Idiots" look like the philosophical experiment that it is.
- 0ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliDisgusting, offensive, and utterly without merit. And, on top of that, it's boring and pretentious.