Delirious
Peace Arch Releasing | Release Date: August 15, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is the best DiCillo movie I've seen, and he's made some good ones ("Box of Moonlight," "The Real Blonde"). Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterSura Wood
Smart, funny and ultimately over-the-top spoof is more often than not, spot on. Read full review
80
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The movie is exhilarating in a way that only hard-won knowledge of the world can be. Read full review
80
VarietyJonathan Holland
An all-or-nothing perf from old DiCillo hand Steve Buscemi and a script that leaves no ironical stone unturned make this laugh-out-loud fare. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Tom DiCillo’s angry comedy Delirious subjects modern celebrity culture to a microscopic examination that shows the toxic virus of fame squirming and multiplying under its lens. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Among DiCillo's best, and returns to the central theme of his career: the elusive and destructive nature of fame. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
In the end, I don't know that Delirious has all that much to say about the fame game, but you'll laugh nonetheless. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
Despite some plot holes, Delirious, hits the bull's-eye with razor-sharp performances and dialogue. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
DiCillo's short, sharp snapshot about celebrity and life on the fringe has nothing new to say, but it says it with considerable charm and affection. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Buscemi makes this pathetic and potentially lethal shutterbug a figure of surprising humor and compassion. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneTasha Robinson
Engaging, intelligent and enjoyable. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid Wiegand
Wonderfully giddy meditation on the nature of fame. Read full review
70
Film ThreatJeremy Mathews
The story's surprises range from clever to annoying, but DiCillo manages to hold it all together with his consistently amusing cast members, who make you laugh at their characters' self-absorbed folly. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Agently attitudinous, generally zippy urban fairy tale about pop stars and the hangers-on who coddle (or prey upon) them, Tom DiCillo's Delirious is a mild "Midnight Cowboy," a minor "King of Comedy," and mainly a vehicle for Steve Buscemi as a lower Manhattan–based paparazzo. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
A story peopled by flawed archetypes, it's an achingly funny film that is also a little sad around the edges. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
The jokes are sparse and predictable, and the storytelling is, too. But Buscemi and Gershon have great fun with their roles, and Pitt is strangely agreeable about the whole thing. Bully for him. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Everyone here is obsessed with finding "the real thing" - the next hot actor, the next revealing paparazzi shot, the lover or the friend who'll make it all worthwhile. Everyone settles for the illusion of reality instead. It's prettier, and it doesn't hurt so much. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It would be nice to see a sharp, funny, penetrating satire of the new, kicked-up culture of empty media fame, but Tom DiCillo's scattershot buddy movie Delirious isn't it. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Though it scores a reasonable share of laughs, Delirious might have been better off if it weren't a comedy at all. Read full review
50
PremiereGlenn Kenny
The movie becomes less fizzy once DeCillo decides to make A Statement (a rather incoherent one at that). Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Purports to give us the lowdown on Manhattan celebrity life, yet it depends so consistently on plot contrivances and other movies (The King of Comedy, Midnight Cowboy, even All About Eve) that it often comes across as wannabe muckraking. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Too many different stories are vying for attention here, and none of them are very good. Read full review
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