Bully
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: July 13, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
8
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
With its smooth skinned cast and demonized adults, doesn't feel very authentic. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Clark denies his audience the catharsis, resolution and renewal of classical tragedy. The film reduces its viewers to helplessness, and I'm not sure that's its intent. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It feels like a peek into the closet of a pedophile and it's genuinely discomforting. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Unpleasant stuff, and Clark pounces on the material with his usual relish and a discomfiting combination of moralizing and prurience. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
If it weren't so rivetingly realistic, it would be an easy film to dismiss. And if it weren't so easily dismissible, it would be an easy film to defend. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalEd Epstein
My problem is that the lack of narrative structure deprives the film of any suspense, and without suspense the film eventually collapses from its own heat like a soufflé that has been in the oven just a few minutes too long.
50
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
The film's start-and-go rhythm can be as maddening as the characters' amorality and sheer wallowing stupidity, but Clark has an uncanny talent for putting atmosphere on celluloid. Read full review
40
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Oddly, Bully's only moments of power come at the film's end, after the crime takes place.
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