The Brown Bunny
Wellspring Media | Release Date: August 27, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
6
Negative:
9

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The Brown Bunny is one long, self-indulgent bore topped off with a hard-core porn scene featuring Gallo and co-star Chloë Sevigny. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJim Fusilli
An excruciatingly embarrassing display of ego and ineptitude.
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
It's not really a movie. I suppose it's what could be called a recorded behavior. Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
Inexpressiveness is what separates the film from its models (chiefly Antonioni) and what makes it so exasperating. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It is not the worst movie ever made, as some critics claim, but it does a passing imitation. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
The kind of fascinatingly bad film only a really gifted and fearless moviemaker could make: a 92-minute long raggedy-raunchy vision of sex, transit and alienation in which Gallo focuses on himself so obsessively, it's as if he'd become his own stalker. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Only in the last third, when he gets down to the business of telling a story, does The Brown Bunny become a porn movie -- though not in the sense you'd expect. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
In his second feature as a director, Gallo acts as writer, director, producer, star, cinematographer, production designer and editor. Thus, the failure is all his. Read full review
0
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
There are not enough synonyms for ''bad'' to describe the pretension and utter banality of the masturbatory The Brown Bunny, a film so exhaustively awful even its creator Vincent Gallo once disavowed it. Read full review
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