Service (Serbis)
Regent Releasing | Release Date: January 30, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleJonathan Curiel
Serbis has the feel of a documentary, but a documentary can't accomplish what Serbis does: Take us to a corner of the world where sex and regret are so intimately entwined. Read full review
90
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Serbis may be a raunch-fest, but it's also a mind-trip--a raunch-fest with ideas. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Merry, filthy, unstoppably hormonal, Serbis feels very much like the sort of movie that happens when no one is minding the store. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
At its best, Serbis is a vibrant slice of life that establishes this theater as a living organism, nurturing a society of outcasts; it's like "Ship Of Fools" with blowjobs and boil-lancings. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Gentle, bawdy and at times rambunctiously, ticklishly rude. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The theater building is a four-story monster, and by the end of the picture we know it very well, in all its broken-down glory. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMaggie Lee
The camera explores each nook and cranny of the dilapidated movie-house like an usher who knows his way round blindfolded, and the building, with its richly visual interior structures desperately in need of an overhaul, comes to symbolize poetically the predicament of its inhabitants and their moral ambiguity. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzman
Raunchy and profane. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is not a film most people will enjoy. Its qualities are apparent only if appreciates cinematic style for itself. Read full review
60
VarietyJay Weissberg
Brillante Mendoza’s latest opus that revels in shock value. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
This isn't a family -- or a film -- you'll ­easily forget. Read full review
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