Vulgar
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: April 26, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
5
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
0
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
To say that Vulgar is not for all tastes might be the understatement of the year. For starters, this black comedy has a male rape scene that makes the one in "Deliverance" seem mild by comparison. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyJohn Dentino
First-time director Bryan Johnson's failure to resolve the film’s two moods -- psychopathic sexual brutality and light social satire -- proves fatal. Read full review
10
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
The acting tends toward the cartoonish (not in a good way), and the story is built on a series of illogical motivations. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesHenry Sheehan
Johnson does seem to have some psycho-sexual ax to grind amid all this visual and sexual crudity. For instance, women barely figure in the action, with Will taking on various stereotypical feminine attributes. But good luck finding meaning in all this mess. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The only thing shocking about it, however, is the degree to which self-congratulatory gutter exhibitionism has become the degraded ash end of indie ''edge.'' Read full review
0
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
It's impossible to imagine why Lions Gate, the indie distributor that released "Monster's Ball," would bother with this garbage. Read full review
0
VarietyDennis Harvey
Inexplicably mixing lamer-than-lame "bad taste" comedy with yea worse traumatized-assault-victim histrionics, pic's only entertainment value lies in viewer weighing whether pic is primarily a.) offensive b.) amateurish c.) pathetic or d.) a cry for help. Read full review
0
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Sure to appear in everyone's worst-of lists at year's end, to say nothing of a few bad dreams, Bryan Johnson's Vulgar is an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse. Read full review
0
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Vulgar doesn't begin to describe it: Try one of the foulest, least funny films ever made under the rubric of black comedy. Read full review
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