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New York City, in the heart of summer: a heat wave transforms the city into a tropical zone. Ten characters are drawn, one after the other, into a ring of love and desire, each one caught beyond his or her control in a chain reaction of seduction, impulses and self-discovery.
Leave your thoughts about 30 Beats.
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA sexy, smart and sophisticated exploration of sex, love and everything in between. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfUnfortunately, the filmmaker mistakes inertia for sensuality, keeping the material in a frustrating state of paralysis. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey[VIDEO ESSAY] Marginally enhanced by the presence of a few experienced actors (Jennifer Tilly, Paz De La Huerta, Lee Pace), writer-director Alexis Lloyd's Manhattan-set sexual roundelay is a shoddy feature debut. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaA clever storytelling structure can easily be reduced to a mere gimmick when there's no story of worth to tell. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckClearly aiming for high artistic ground, the film doesn't even satisfy on an arousal level, with the discreet nudity and endless yakking not exactly proving a turn-on. |
| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenThe only payoff to Lloyd's structure is that the young actress Condola Rashad, a recent Tony nominee, is allowed to appear in both the film's first scene and its final segment to bring the story full-circle, though her enigmatic, beguiling presence underlines just the sort of energy missing from the rest of the film. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsWhere the original play "La Ronde" was a social satire about the transmission of venereal disease, 30 Beats is a sickly stepchild. |
| Time OutMatt SingerThere's an interesting idea about the way people assume wildly disparate personalities to please different sexual partners, but the flaccid execution of this promiscuous–New Yorkers circle jerk is more worthy of the clap than a round of applause. |
| New York PostSara StewartThere's an argument to be made that sex scenes, done to death, are best left to the imagination - but only if they're replaced by something more interesting. In 30 Beats, the conversational foreplay is hopelessly flaccid. |
| amNewYorkRobert LevinThe characters are props in what's essentially a lame screenwriting exercise. |