"manipulates psychological theory and repulsive form"

"feels curiously unmoored in time"

"any suggestion of violence is masked in refinement and taste"

"earnest yet oddly boastful"

"an understanding of irony so deep that it doubles back on itself to become sincerity"

"dreamy,abstracted inwardness"

"the official difference between communism and capitalism"

"engages the opposite side of the brain"

"neither prurient nor smarmy"

"spooky fleshiness"

"essentially vacant but redolent of designer chic"

"unabashedly romantic and irrestistibly cool"

"avoids simply exploiting pathos"

"less scatalogical than usual,but it still retains a latent nastiness"

"the bleakness is perfectly rendered"

"expresses humor,loathing and curiosity all at once"

"flawlessness that's dangerously close to lifelessness"

"so obvious and so silly that you wonder if you've missed something"

"steamy atmosphere with isolated details"

"the overall effect is cute rather than menacing"

"yet another example of clown craft"

"skirts awfully close to facile cultural critique"

"fussy styling risks growing wearisome"

"shamelessly rather than shrewdly evoking"

"hallucinogenic imagery blended with socially responsible themes"