Teeth
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: January 18, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
This is going to be a notorious film that young audiences will be daring themselves to see, but it's actually funnier, darker and more troubling before it turns into a carnival of repeated dismemberment. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Most of the movie works because the blonde Weixler has a darling-daffy face (a pinch of Alicia Silverstone, a dollop of Drew Barrymore) and a should-I-or-shouldn’t-I ambivalence about sex that’s part realism, part screwball. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A game, disarming lead performance from Jess Weixler, who won a jury acting prize at Sundance, goes some way toward making palatable this mish-mash, whose provocative nature could carve out a certain commercial niche. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJim Ridley
Veteran actor Lichtenstein, the son of Pop artist Roy, rarely finds a workable tone, muffling the splattery mayhem with sluggish pacing and a tendency toward camp. Still, even if the movie's little more than a curio, I love the thought of Lichtenstein at the pitch meeting: "It's Jaws meets The Vagina Monologues!" Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Teenage horror-movie spoof, John Waters parody, No Nukes protest movie, twisted sex-education film, quasi-feminist fable, outrageous stunt: Mitchell Lichtenstein’s clever, crude comedy, Teeth, is all these and more. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film's mix of cheap gags, macabre coming-of-age story, social satire and Cronenbergian body horror is apparently meant to gel into black comedy, but it never quite does. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Turnabout is fair play, to be sure, but ultimately virtually everyone in Teeth ends up using sex as a weapon, edged or otherwise, to the detriment of all concerned. Just say "Ow." Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
There's no scarier myth for males, and Mr. Lichtenstein turns various images of emasculation into a black comedy that flirts, fairly tediously, with pornography. Read full review
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