| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...a big, lascivious punch line about America's peculiar, embarrassed, hypocritical relationship with sex." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Tracey Ullman is a great comic actress, but for her to make this movie funny would have required not just a performance but a rewrite and a miracle." more... |
C- |
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt |
"...awfully bawdy, never sexy, rarely funny, actually boring, one-note sex comedy." more... |
C |
| E! Online |
"...goes limp really quickly." more... |
C |
Film Journal International
Lewis Beale |
"...absolutely filthy and totally hysterical..." more... |
A |
Film Threat
Phil Hall |
"...easily the most surprising comedy of [Water's] career. The surprise: it's not funny." more... |
C |
filmcritic.com
Nicholas Schager |
"...there's a newfound go-for-broke experimentation visible in the director's stylistic choices." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"John Waters hits new levels of depravity with his latest comedy--and that's a compliment." more... |
A |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...more enjoyable than Waters' last couple of films, that's largely due to the thoroughly demented performances of Ullman and Knoxville..." more... |
B- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"Sitting through it is like being in the company of a bunch of 8-year-olds who have just learned a new swear word. At his age, Mr. Waters should know better." more... |
D- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"...shameless fun." more... |
B |
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