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Vincent Canby, New York Times: A sluggish courtroom melodrama relieved only by unintenional laughter. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: While he may be marginally better at directing kinky sex scenes than Instinct's Paul Verhoeven, [Edel is] stuck with a fairly ho-hum script by Brad Mirman. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is the kind of poor effort that's difficult to forgive. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I've seen comedies with fewer laughs than Body of Evidence, and this is a movie that isn't even trying to be funny. Read more
Variety Staff, Variety: A courtroom drama built around the charge that Madonna's body is a deadly weapon with which she 'fornicated' a man to death, this showcase for the singer-thesp as femme fatale is more silly than erotic. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: What do you say about this kind of movie? Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A bland, utterly silly, curiously provincial courtroom drama. Read more