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
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Larry Clark's Bully calls the bluff of movies that pretend to be about murder but are really about entertainment. His film has all the sadness and shabbiness, all the mess and cruelty and thoughtless stupidity of the real thing. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The tone -- a combination of earnestness and gallows humor -- is strangely appropriate. Read full review
80
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Ferocious and sometimes creepily funny, Bully is a raunchy suburban "Crime and Punishment." Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
If you stick with Bully through its seemingly endless repetition of themes and its hurl-inducing hand-held camerawork, it does build a crude, indefinable power. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The movie's somber message is worth heeding, and the acting is mostly excellent. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
That the actors can work under such scrutiny is amazing, and they are superb. The standout is Brad Renfro as Marty, the kid most under the thumb of the neighborhood bully. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
There's a terrible beauty to the work of Larry Clark, the controversial photographer turned filmmaker, that transcends chic nihilism. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The important thing is that Clark has found a new way to be creepy, which isn't easy. In the process he has created something irresistibly watchable, the kind of original piece that might mean less but reveal more than its creator intended. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeLoren King
Nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make.
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