Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
31
(9 sources)
31
(9 sources)
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70
Variety
Besides "Midnight Cowboy" and "American Gigolo," there aren't many mainstream movies centered on straight male prostitutes. Sonny is a worthy, if indie-style, addition to the list. Read Full Review » -
63
USA Today
While compellingly watchable, it's as overheated as Cage-the-actor's 1991 soft-core (and direct-to-video) "Zandalee," also set in New Orleans. Read Full Review » -
50
Los Angeles Times
The day-to-day realities, especially economic, of Sonny and Jewel's lives could have been more fully detailed to good effect, and Cage might have also have risked setting off the tenderness of his storytelling with an edgier style. Even so, few films take the viewer by surprise with such emotional impact as Sonny. Read Full Review » -
50
Village Voice
Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism. Read Full Review » -
40
TV Guide
It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly, and that "drunk cam," a blurred, cockeyed lens through which Sonny's soused point-of-view is shown, is just a terrible idea. Read Full Review » -
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New York Daily News
Shows what can happen when a bunch of good actors get together without adult supervision. They emote all over the place, banging into each other, talking too loud, knocking over furniture, wallowing in clichés and otherwise behaving like rank amateurs. Read Full Review » -
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LA Weekly
Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure. Read Full Review »
