"Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy" begins as an interesting film, remains visually impressive until the finale, but in the end, lacks substance, at least for the majority of its 119 minutes.

With her visual and vocal poetics, U-ki Yamato offers a powerful evocation of the importance for the subject to assume his own subjective position to desire from.

Disturbing bullying in bizarre Japanese melodrama.

It's two hours long, repetitive, emotionally impenetrable, irritating, written by someone who can't find a synonym for "cute," incomprehensible and edited by Screwy Squirrel with a power chisel.