Critic Reviews

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  Filled with pretty faces and empty logic, David Moreton's noir-wannabe Testosterone flounders about, doing everything but flutter its eyelashes in an attempt to distract us from its lack of substance.

• Desson Thomson, Washington Post

  The movie's primary interest seems to be in following several good-looking men wherever they care to meander.

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  A pointless, wandering tale of obsession that seems to have little purpose beyond showing that gay characters can be in a messed-up movie too.

• John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

  [Relies] on a creaky plot and gaping lapses in plausibility.

• Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

  A tonal car wreck -- the equivalent of Chuck Norris crashing though the pages of an Isabel Allende novel.

• Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News

  A lackluster and meandering exercise in psycho-sexual provocation.

• Scott Tobias, AV Club

  Moreton shows plenty of ambition in his second feature, but somewhere in the space between page and screen, he lost the thread.

• Don Willmott, Filmcritic.com

  incredibly plot-heavy yet feels light as a feather

• Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix

  Unfortunately, Testosterone isn't as provocative as its premise or its title.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  The tone-challenged movie is meant to be a dark comedy, but there are long stretches without laughs.

• Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, TheMovieChicks.com

  Broken hearts and testosterone don't mix well with machetes (I think I would have preferred watching the 10 months of romance that they skipped over in the beginning).

• Eric D. Snider, EricDSnider.com

  The film's major objective appears to be showing cute men doing suggestive things. But if that's your thing, why not just look at pictures? Why ruin it with a story?

• Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

  Woefully shallow.

• Sean Means, Salt Lake Tribune

  The male characters are bland, a fatal flaw for a gay movie, while the women - Celina Font, Sonia Braga and Jennifer Coolidge - steal the show.

• Laura Kelly, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  If you want to see a movie with some real chops about gays in Argentina, rent Wong Kar Wai's still-hip, still-smoldering Happy Together from 1997, and happier you will be.

• Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

  It's evident that Dean is capable of getting many other good-looking boyfriends if he so desires -- why get so worked up over one who's a jackass?

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