Fresh
While it has its gag-inducing moments, director Brillante Mendoza's film about a three-generational family that lives in and operates a rundown porn theatre is more sweet than twisted.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Overview
A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Rotten
You have been advised; proceed accordingly.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
Part-telenovela, part outlandish screwball comedy, part soft-porno, but completely without a road map, Serbis evokes Pedro Almodovar, Tennessee Williams, and 1940s and '50s Hollywood.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh
Serbis has the feel of a documentary, but a documentary can't accomplish what "Serbis" does: Take us to a corner of the world where sex and regret are so intimately entwined.
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
This isn't a family -- or a film -- you'll easily forget.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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