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Variety
Wilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness (if not always impeccable taste), has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay, and he has got at best only plodding help from two of his principals, Dean Martin and Kim Novak. Full Review
Andy Klein
New Times (L.A.)
It just doesn¹t get very good until halfway through, in large part because the usually excellent Walston is miscast. Full Review
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
Hollywood censors made Wilder reshoot one scene, but the original version has been rediscovered; while it's tame by today's standards, it makes the movie's caustic social commentary more potent than ever. Full Review
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
A grimly suggestive and unexpectedly tender bedroom farce, Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid is a true film maudit. Full Review
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
Cinephiles and Billy Wilder fans get a rare opportunity to see the "slightly dirtier" European ending to the director's 1964 sex farce. Full Review
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