48
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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasRifkin has spun a pitch-black fable of show business at its sleaziest and most ephemeral.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovRifkin has fashioned a crawly little movie that underscores the Faustian price of fame in a way that few recent films have managed.
- Somewhere here, an ironic show-biz parable is trying to take shape. But director Adam Rifkin generally ignores it, preferring to flaunt the chops he has borrowed from David Lynch and John Waters.
- 50The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinMr. Rifkin's direction does display, in addition to an appreciation of Mr. Lynch and perhaps John Waters, a promising eye for design and a taste for the unusual. With less noxious material and a less patronizing manner, those talents would amount to a lot more.
- The film's sense of humor is relentlessly smutty. Rifkin attempts to wring laughs from gross food, breasts, garbage and sex with fat women. He is largely unsuccessful.
- 25Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversRifkin has conjured up a new low in cinematic ineptitude.
- 25The Seattle TimesJohn HartlThe Seattle TimesJohn HartlThis stupefyingly unfunny attempt to create a midnight cult movie stars Judd Nelson as a talentless stand-up comic who becomes a celebrity when he grows a third arm out of the middle of his back. [26 Mar 1992, p.E2]