Both Time and Newsweek, meanwhile, gave surprisingly...

Both Time and Newsweek, meanwhile, gave surprisingly generous coverage to Paul Bartel’s “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills,” which opened nationwide on only one screen. The reason: neither newsweekly could get an early “Star Trek 5” screening to make the deadline for last week’s editions. Bartel’s little picture “got lucky,” Corliss explained.

Like David Ansen at Newsweek, Corliss liked the sex comedy “pretty much.”