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Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenEdwards' crowning achievement. It is a wickedly funny, impeccably cast, ingeniously subversive satire of the Hollywood film industry.
- 80The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyIt's a nasty, biased, self-serving movie that also happens to be hilarious most of the time.
- 80NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenThis movie has teeth, and it's not afraid to bite. [6 July 1981, p.7]
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis satirical attack on Hollywood and the film industry, however, lacks the biting edge and fresh characters necessary to make it work.
- 50Time OutTime OutThough, like many of Edwards' films, it lurches uncertainly from slapstick farce to mordant humour in an extremely hit-or-miss fashion, this surprisingly bitter satire on Tinseltown - in which a producer (Mulligan) beefs up his latest turkey of a movie by introducing some pornographic sex scenes and having his wife/star (Andrews) bare her breasts on screen - does hit the mark once or twice.
- 50Washington PostJudith MartinWashington PostJudith MartinThis is by no means the first film, nor the first film about the movie industry, in which the epitome of emotion is represented by a character talking on the telephone while oral sex is being performed on him. [3 July 1981, p.19]
- 40Washington PostGary ArnoldWashington PostGary ArnoldThe problem with S.O.B. is that it reveals another sort of failure on Edwards' part: his fondness for dwelling on this low point in his career. He neglects to update the scenario or liberate it from the self-pity he overindulged in at the time. In fact, it's residual self-pity that undermines S.O.B. as a promising satire of Hollywood mores and hypocrisies. Edwards' tendency to feel sorry for himself keeps intruding on the potential wackiness. [2 July 1981, p.C1]
- 38The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottIt's a satire inferior to the thing it satirizes. [3 July 1981]