Showgirls

MGM/UA Home Entertainment | Release Date: September 22, 1995

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25	METASCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews

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Stanley Kauffmann

What matters much more than the story or the Spicy Stuff is the dancing, the show-biz dancing. It's electric. Exciting. And there's lots of it. [23 Oct 1995]

The GuardianPeter Bradshaw

Maybe it’s the last great mainstream exploitation picture, a film which owns and flaunts its crassness; a bi-curious catfight version of All About Eve or Pretty Woman. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

As Nomi, Elizabeth Berkley has exactly two emotions -- hot and bothered -- but her party-doll blowsiness works for the picture. Read full review

Roger Ebert

If the plot and screenplay are juvenile, the production values are first-rate, and the lead performance by newcomer Elizabeth Berkley has a fierce energy that's always interesting. Read full review

Desson Thomson

To take Showgirls that seriously (as either trash-art or appalling pornography) wouldn't be worth the exertion. Read full review

Gene Siskel

The film's big lap-dance sequence is impressive, however, if only for the sheer athleticism of Elizabeth Berkley's contortion. Later, when she pulls the same stunt in a swimming pool, we recognize the show for what it is--a male fantasy film in which the women are little more than rag dolls. [22 Sept 1995]

David Sterritt

In its depiction of the Las Vegas nightclub scene and in its own cinematic strategies, the film is quite instructive about the intersection of sex, money, and entertainment in some areas of popular American culture. [29 Sept 1995]