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Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60NewsweekJack KrollNewsweekJack KrollWriter David Rayfiel and director Lamount Johnson are making murky connections between sex, religion, repression and the emotional sterility of avant-garde art. The result is both specious and seductive, a kitschy ode to the pervasive eroticism of contemporary culture. [12 Apr 1976, p.94]
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyThe revelation of Lipstick is another Hemingway, first name Mariel, Margaux's 14-year-old sister, who plays her sister in the film. As the chief witness to the events within the movie, and its ultimate victim, she gives an immensely moving, utterly unaffected performance that shows up everything else as a calculated swindle.
- 50Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonIt’s Lifetime. It’s camp. It’s seriously confused, and it should speak directly to drag queens in straight relationships everywhere.
- 40Time OutTime OutIn failing to reveal the model's persona as the materialisation (maintained at some cost to herself) of collective male fantasy, the script underlines its teleplay blandness.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLipstick is a nasty little item masquerading as a bold statement on the crime of rape. The statement would seem a little bolder if the movie didn't linger in violent and graphic detail over the rape itself, and then handle the vengeance almost as an afterthought.
- 25TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineMean little film that pretends to say something about rape but panders to the cheap exploitation values of bad thriller films.