Antarctica 2008

Critics score:
50 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: While the director ogles his cast and busies himself with hackneyed visual metaphors, Antarctica wallows in casual lust and bored disaffection. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Hochner is terrific at staging intimate encounters, and he gets his story off to a lively start -- only to run out of ideas and momentum. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Ambition and a roomful of good-looking guys isn't quite enough. Read more

Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: It's fun to see attractive people get together and fall apart. Read more

Ella Taylor, Village Voice: Antarctica takes urban loneliness as its subject, but though all the characters are strikingly attractive, there's nothing frothy or pandering about Hochner's hermetic homosexual world. Read more