A Dirty Shame Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

A big, lascivious punch line about America's peculiar, embarrassed, hypocritical relationship with sex.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Monotonous, repetitive and sometimes wildly wrong in what it hopes is funny. Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

A Dirty Shame isn't dirty fun. It's the perv "Footloose."Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites

This raucously gritty and high-spirited film could scarcely be bluer in terms of the language, but from Waters it comes as a gust of fresh air. Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Tracey Ullman is a bright spot in an otherwise sordid, murky production. Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

A Dirty Shame is Waters unleashed, and wicked, kinky fun for anyone except the twits who rated it NC-17. Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Steven WinnAdd Critic to Favorites

Squanders its comic capital on redundant bits about her perplexed family and secret society of fellow sex addicts.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Michael RechtshaffenAdd Critic to Favorites

John Waters has returned to trashy form with what is unquestionably his most outrageous film since those heady "Pink Flamingos" days. Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

I object to A Dirty Shame not because it is offensive - to do so would be another way of congratulating Mr. Waters for his bogus daring - but because it is boring. Beyond offering a catalog of interesting practices and lampooning their dedicated practitioners, the movie has very little to say about sex.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Embracing ugliness, lousy production values, and borderline hysteria as virtues, A Dirty Shame is one for the cultists, a proud retreat back into the sandbox of sexual juvenilia, a potty-mouthed manifesto from an elder statesman of shock. Read the full review

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