Critic Reviews

• Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times

  Even though the handsome black-and-white lensing is no substitute for a compelling story, it helps, infusing the skin-deep sketches of emotional enervation with aesthetic energy - for a while.

• Leslie Felperin, Variety

  Lotus Eaters wants desperately to be a portrait of the beautiful and the damned, with its tale of West London rich kids doing drugs and shagging each other, but it's more like a spectacle of the spoiled and annoying.

• Andy Webster, New York Times

  Overflows with underdeveloped characters and plotlines.

• Marley Lynch, Time Out New York

  Like its characters, Lotus Eaters is a visual treat-and emotionally vapid.

• Chuck Wilson, Village Voice

  Maddeningly shallow-maybe that's the point-but McGuinness does have talent.

• Dave Calhoun, Time Out

  A braying, caricatured ensemble which spouts poor dialogue and drowns out anything more tender or well-observed that the film may wish to say about the elegantly wasted.

• Diego Costa, Slant Magazine

  The free spirit-ness of its characters is certainly mirrored in the film's aesthetic playfulness, but the initial glimmer of Fassbinder-esque expression quickly veers toward Xavier Dolan-grade affectation.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  A lazily directed, flabby look at a group of young, too-rich Londoners whose lives are so miserable you'll be tempted to give up your money and move to an ashram or monastery.

• Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

  Lotus Eaters tracks a posse of pointless rich kids around London, but the result can come across as even more aimless than the antics on screen.

• Ron Wilkinson, Monsters and Critics

  Fascinating black and white photography cannot make up for the lack of energy in this dreamscape of human misery.

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