200 Cigarettes Critic Reviews

A twentysomething comedy with a brain-dead script, unflattering lighting and 16 performers in search of a scriptwriter...[It] feels like one-sixth of an idea stretched to the breaking point.Read the full review

Gathers a partyful of young players and barely gives them enough of a story line to puff on, but it gets by on personality anyhow.Read the full review

A tepid affair, distinguished by bland character development, uninspired and insipid dialogue, and a nonexistent plot.Read the full review

More of a throwback to a period in the '70s when big-screen comedies like "FM" and "Thank God It's Friday" seemed to take all their cues from bad sitcoms, putting rice-paper-flat characters into vibrant settings and giving them nothing to do but exchange faux witty dialogue without the much-needed cues of a laugh track.Read the full review

A light comedy, pure and simple (and hardly unfamiliar), but its makers sustain its energy through the unraveling of an intricate plot and bring to it a certain edge through a witty, sharp sense of observation.Read the full review

A gaggle of hip actors squander their gifts in this unfunny, out-of-control comedy.Read the full review

200 Cigarettes doesn't have a bad scene or a false note. The picture is a succession of pointed little moments, nicely written by Shana Larsen and acted with comic assurance and sensitivity.Read the full review

Hit-and-mostly-miss.Read the full review

Dreadful...Maybe another 200 cigarettes would have helped; coughing would be better than some of this dialogue.Read the full review