Shock to the System 2006

Jim Ridley, Village Voice: ... director Ron Oliver applies a thin veneer of straight-to-cable pseudo-gloss without finding a workable tone, and the cast lacks the charisma and chemistry to make the genre and gender-bending register as more than novelty. Read more

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: Where film noir is often punch-drunk with a jab of snappy patter and a left hook of world-weary cynicism, Shock tries to clinch with understanding. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: A perfectly respectable second entry in the saga of gay private eye Donald Strachey. Read more