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Addicted

Every Woman Needs an Escape

2014 · 1h 45m · R Drama, Thriller
Directed by Bille Woodruff

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Overview

A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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8%
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Rotten

Woodruff's direction is smooth enough on a technical level, but the film's storytelling has little dimension, even for a melodrama.

Jesse Hassenger, AV Club
Rotten

The actors are uniformly handsome and mostly serviceable, though the same can't be said about the filmmaking or the writing.

Nicole Herrington, New York Times
Rotten

Watching "Addicted" is like eating Cheese Whiz straight from the jar. There's no nutritional value. It's kind of embarrassing. But it does satisfy a base craving for cheap, immediate sensation.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten

The film unfortunately depicts black female sexuality, a topic rarely portrayed onscreen, with all the depth and subtlety of a late night Cinemax offering.

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten

"Addicted" doesn't know whether it wants to be a modern-day bodice-ripper, a morality-tinged cautionary tale or a serious snapshot of sexual compulsion. Whatever the case, it fails on all fronts.

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

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