I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it.
1994

Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.
2005

[*] could have been co-directed by Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg and still be unwatchable, because of that damned snowman.
1998

[*] is a deplorable film with this message: If you're a 14-year-old girl who has been brutally raped and murdered by a serial killer, you have a lot to look forward to.
2010

This film is not only garbage on an artistic level, but that it is also garbage on the crude and base level where it no doubt hopes to find its audience.
1980

Hitchcock said a movie should play the audience like a piano. [*] played me like a drum. It is an assault on all the senses, including common.
2008

[*] is a colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a premise so transparent it would be laughable were the movie not so deadly solemn.
2004

[*] is not good in any rational or defensible way, but not bad in irrational and indefensible ways... You can wallow in it.
2006

Spacey and Parker are honorable men. Why did they go to Texas and make this silly movie? The last shot made me want to throw something at the screen--maybe Spacey and Parker.
2003

Sample dialogue, from a pool hall: 'What are you doing here?' 'We heard you were doing `True West.' ' 'Well, you heard wrong. We're doing `American Buffalo.' ' [Shoots him.]
1999

The new version of [*] is a contemptible film: Vile, ugly and brutal. There is not a shred of a reason to see it.
2003

[*] is a dirty movie. Not a sexy, erotic, steamy or even smutty movie, but a just plain dirty movie.
2002

The movie itself has a tell: Watch for the moment when somebody obviously pulls a punch. If you hadn't figured out the rest of the movie by then, it gives away the whole thing.
2008

Everybody involved in this project needs to do some community service.
2003

This movie is awful in so many different ways. Even the opening titles are cheesy.
2000

Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer.
1998

[*] is ugly, nihilistic, and cruel -- a film I regret having seen. I urge you to avoid it.
2005

Among many silly scenes, the silliest has to be the Ferris wheel sequence, which isn't even as thrilling as the one in 'The Notebook.'
2004

Even the movie's poop joke fails, and if you can't make a poop joke work in a movie about kids, you're in trouble.
2003

What were John Travolta and Robin Williams thinking of? Apparently their agents weren't perceptive enough to smell the screenplay in its advanced state of decomposition...
2009