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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Film ThreatFilm ThreatThis is a serious look at the corrupting influences of fame, money and entertainment, and what it says about us may be even more damning than what it says about its participants.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliPart documentary, part parody, and part something indefinable, the film manages to succeed on its own terms and entertain on just about anyone's.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA bit of a tease itself. The movie keeps threatening to become amateur porn, like a risqué ''Candid Camera'' gone ''Dirty Debutantes,'' but it never quite gets there.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThere's no denying the freak-show appeal and you don't see frontal nudity like this on TV, but otherwise it's all as contrived and artificial as "Survivor."
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceThink Fear Factor: Soft Porn anchored by a third-act twist that results in confused meta-mayhem.
- 38New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanIt isn't entirely clear if Games People Play is a spot-on but longwinded and excessively campy spoof of those TV "reality" game shows... or just a particularly ingenious and sleazy example of the genre.
- 20VarietyDavid RooneyVarietyDavid RooneyThis artless, unpolished venture adds a heavy sex-and-skin factor to a poorly defined game show, lurching awkwardly between exploitative voyeurism, maudlin confessions and self-consciously risque titillation.
- 20L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonA big-screen reality show that flashes plenty of t-- and d--- but little integrity.
- 20Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasWhitney takes having it both ways to new heights -- depths is perhaps more like it. He satirizes reality TV while showing total nudity and at times carrying sex to the verge of soft-core porn. As titillating and energetic as the film is, it is also rather sad because it reveals what aspiring actors will endure for what they apparently regard as an opportunity.
- 10The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe film doesn't know what it wants to be -- reality programming pushed to the max or a satire of reality TV? -- but it winds up as an exercise in the rankest sort of cynicism.