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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenWayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out.
- 40Los Angeles TimesGlenn WhippLos Angeles TimesGlenn WhippKramer, 10 years removed from his lone critical success, "The Cooler," and writer Adam Minarovich aren't exactly aping Tarantino, if only because they don't have the talent or inclination to aim that high.
- 38McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreIt’s coherent enough, but entirely too long and unpleasant when it could have been one brutishly edgy hoot after another.
- 30Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerDirector Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, Crossing Over) makes plain his cartoon-comedy intentions early and often via comic-book-panel-style title cards. The presiding atmosphere of over-the-top zaniness, however, is of a broad, banal sort involving little people, rampant nudity, and quasi-religious nonsense.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDespite its noteworthy cast who presumably had some time to fill between better gigs, this is the sort of instantly disposable B-movie effort that Quentin Tarantino would have chucked in the wastebasket after a first draft.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen Holden"Hee Haw” meets “Pulp Fiction” at the meth lab: That describes the style of Pawn Shop Chronicles, a hillbilly grindhouse yawp of a movie that belches in your face and leaves a sour stink.
- 25RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiThe problem with Pawn Shop Chronicles is not the fact that it is a clone of "Pulp Fiction." The problem is that it is a lousy clone.
- 20Time OutTime OutOnly one gag (involving a town’s rival barbers) sticks; the rest is just whistlin’ Dixie.
- 20The DissolveNathan RabinThe DissolveNathan RabinThe film doesn’t feel like a fresh riff on familiar tropes so much as a bad cover of Pulp Fiction.