Gummo
Fine Line Features | Release Date: October 17, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
19
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireKim Newman
As horribly funny as it is depressing, it gets pretty hard to take after a while, especially for anyone who is a committed cat-lover. A melancholy edge of deliberate poetry mutes the ugly realism but also serves to make bearable what might otherwise be an hour-and-a-half of hell. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
It's an interesting technique -- the blurring of reality and "movies" -- but Korine's objective is so narrow and mean, and his viewpoint so colored by smug, adolescent condescension, that Gummo comes off like a mean-spirited prank. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesBill Stamets
The sideshows in Gummo offer no particular form -- or even formlessness -- despite the visual momentum created by Jean Yves Escoffier's arresting camera work. [6 March 1998, p.40]
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Different viewers might find different portions worthy of anything from zero to four stars, but anyone with a faint heart or weak stomach should stay miles away from it. [24 Oct. 1997, p.13]
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