Dicks: The Musical

A24 | Release Date: October 6, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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14
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12
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
PolygonSiddhant AdlakhaOct 6, 2023
It’s a laugh riot, with the potential to go down as one of the decade’s smartest and funniest comedies. Read full review
90
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 8, 2023
"Dicks” is an unapologetically puerile, hard-R novelty that’s just lo-fi enough to maintain its underground cred. Read full review
87
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 18, 2023
Demanding a full audience of sickos to unlock the film’s true communal madness, Dicks: The Musical is destined for midnight-movie deification. Worship its transgressive power, or denounce it as unholy. The film thankfully offers no in-between. Read full review
80
Vanity FairHillary BusisSep 8, 2023
As the film wears on, though, it gets weirder and sharper—particularly when musical comedy pros Lane and Mullally show up. Each actor is right on Jackson and Sharp’s line-pushing wavelength, saying and singing unspeakably disgusting things with a straight face. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonOct 5, 2023
It’s a deliriously demented LGBTQ+ riff on “The Parent Trap” about accepting love in all forms, repairing broken families and finding your true self, but it accomplishes all of that in the raunchiest way possible. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaOct 6, 2023
“Dicks” can’t maintain that level of performative thrust all the way through; it sags a bit in the middle, as one might expect from making the considerable jump from the stage and through the hoops of major revisions. But the film bounces back toward its back nine. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenSep 13, 2023
Despite all that loopy energy, Dicks: The Musical still can’t help but remain an inescapably one-note proposition, albeit a subversively melodic one. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubManuel BetancourtOct 6, 2023
This is as broad as comedies get these days. But its shock-and-awe sensibility is somewhat exhausting. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 9, 2023
When enthusiasm alone can no longer keep the ship afloat, sheer audacity rides to the rescue, as “Dicks” ends with an inevitable but satisfying eruption of bad behavior that feels so good — one that leaves you wondering just how much funnier and more transgressive this movie could have been had it allowed itself to go that hard from the start. Read full review
67
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodSep 8, 2023
Sure, the story hangs on by the thinnest of threads, it loses momentum in the second act, and one or two of the songs are just a bit too repetitive. Then again, you’ll laugh. Likely a lot. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 19, 2023
If you’re easily offended, or even have a modest vulgarity/raunch threshold, “Dicks” isn’t/aren’t for you. But in a midnight showing amongst the also-not-easily-shocked lovers of cult comedy dirty laughs, “Dicks” would be hard to beat. Ahem. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonOct 17, 2023
Dicks: The Musical is a three-star movie with a midnight crowd and a two-star movie when viewed at 3 p.m. My star rating splits the difference. Read full review
63
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 11, 2023
Having written this script for themselves, Sharp and Jackson are a scream. Imagine if a vodka Redbull transformed into two human beings — that’s who they are. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 8, 2023
A twisted genre experiment that plays with sexuality, classic genre tropes, and general lunacy, it’s half a movie, but it’s so committed to its rebellious tone that it makes for a hell of a half. Read full review
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