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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.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe 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]