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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonLook, fun is fun, and there’s plenty of the kitschy brand to be had from the riot of late-‘60s production design and lurid plot developments.
- 78Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleValley of the Dolls is a great movie in the very same way that Showgirls is a great movie. Rent it and howl.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenYou won’t want to miss a word of the deliciously bad dialogue in this Hollywood tale of twisted sisters.
- 60Time OutTime OutThe film is regarded in some quarters as a marvellous piece of camp.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat we have here is a dirty soap opera. It is dirty because it intends to be, but it is a soap opera only by default.
- 50The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIt's more in the so bad it's almost good mode.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazinePure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film.
- 30Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrToo dull even to function as camp.
- 20The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherIt's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills.