Critic Reviews

• Sarah Cohen, Time Out

  From the wince-inducing title onwards, the script is laughably bad, especially when it attempts seriousnes.

• Susan Walker, Toronto Star

  Buildings and their interiors fare a lot better in this sumptuously lensed and set-designed film. That's because they don't have to talk or act.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.

• , New York Post

  Hw do they tell their boyfriends and parents that they're gay? Conventionally, that's how.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  In exploring the eternal conflict between love and duty in a fresh, provocative way, Sarif demonstrates that she is a filmmaker of exceptional promise.

• Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

  Although she has made two films in rapid succession, Sarif shows no discernible aptitude for her new medium.

• Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film

  If the plot is cheese, it never rises above the level of a Dairylea triangle

• Edward Porter, Sunday Times (UK)

  She is still some way short of making a movie that deserves a ticket-buying audience.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  Both films are politically daring as well as what used to be called risque. Neither, I'm afraid, is well directed or acted.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  The director struggles to inject much energy or spark into the story. Which is frustrating for a premise with this much potential.

• Jon Williams, Little White Lies

  It's such a mish-mash of terrible ideas next to sincere and affecting themes that it never really works and repeatedly sabotages any recommendation.

• Holly Grigg-Spall, Film4

  A should-have-been straight-to-DVD film that ticks enough boxes to make its cinema release an example of affirmative action.

• Wendy Ide, Times [UK]

  I Can't Think Straight, a glossy contemporary cross-cultural romance between a Palestinian Christian girl and an Anglo-Indian Muslim girl, is spectacularly dreadful.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  Frankly this looks more like Dynasty, with some very broad, soapy acting, coy sex scenes and some airily conspicuous wealth.

• Tim Evans, Sky Movies

  This one's got it's heart in the right place...but little else to recommend it.

• Josh Winning, Total Film

  Deep stuff, then, but imbued with all the weight of a prawn cracker. Its explosive coming-out scene can't compensate for car crash acting. Sadly, great sounding drivel is still drivel.

• , Sun Online

  Writer-director Shamim Sarif can't seem to make up her mind whether she is making a comedy or a serious point about Muslim attitudes to lesbianism. And so she ends up with a fluffy mess.

• Allan Hunter, Daily Express

  Lisa Ray provides the one spark of life in an otherwise drab, graceless production that appears to be set in the Eighties and has the feel of a bad Jilly Cooper novel.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  This lesbian love story is never less than watchable, thanks to a captivating central performance by Lisa Ray, though the script and direction leave a lot to be desired.

• Victor Olliver, Teletext

  It's all very sex-lite - one character even does what Eamonn Holmes did last year, confusing lesbian with Lebanese.

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