David Denby

“…. Paula, more honest and less desperate [than Lynette], makes love for pleasure rather than power. Damp hair askew, her face puffy with desire, Debra Winger, sitting astride Gere, is perhaps the most openly erotic actress ever to appear in mainstream Hollywood movies. If anything, Winger, working her mouth and tossing her hair in every shot, comes on too strong. Nothing else about her is as developed as her sensuality, and because she’s incomplete, she seems a little lewd.”

David Denby
New York, August 9, 1982