Black Snake Moan Critic Reviews

This movie is crazy, but the insanity is electric.Read the full review

Be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments.Read the full review

Though Black Snake Moan is unadulterated deep-fried silliness from "Hustle & Flow" filmmaker Craig Brewer, Jackson makes it indisputably more palatable. It's still not a very good movie, but it's intermittently entertaining (and sometimes unintentionally funny).Read the full review

Ricci's performance is brave and effective - the most provocative in a career that has rejected Hollywood norms.Read the full review

Offensive on multiple levels -- if only the plot had any levels at all -- Black Snake Moan leaves no "Tobacco Road" cliche unsmoked. Ricci gives it her all, and then some, but even her body and Jackson's blues can't heal a movie that rockets plum off its nut.Read the full review

Black Snake Moan' is a trip to that unfamiliar territory well worth tagging along on.Read the full review

Black Snake Moan morphs into a wacky intergenerational bonding movie, something closer to "Harold and Maude" or "The Karate Kid" with a dusting of Southern grit.Read the full review

The blues music in "Moan" is superfine, but my oh my, what to make of the ripe Southern cliches and this absurd story. The film is so jaw-dropping awful that it just might become a boxoffice hit.Read the full review

In spite of Amelia Vincent's toothsome cinematography and the down-home locations, the movie often has the lumbering, literal-minded rhythms of a second-rate stage play -- not a moan or a howl, but a slow, anxious groan.Read the full review