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80
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
For all its decadence, it moves effectively from outrageous camp humor to stark pathos and in the process manages to be oddly touching. As for Culkin, he succeeds as an adult actor in completely unexpected ways.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Culkin plays Alig as clueless to the end, living so firmly in his fantasy world that nothing can penetrate his chirpy persona. Whether this is accurate--whether indeed any of the facts in the film are accurate--is not for me to say, but it works.
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75
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As stagy and awkward as some of the Warhol/Morrissey films of the early '70s.
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50
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
His (Culkin's) performance is earnest and brave, but also mannered when it should be un-self-conscious, and awkward when grace is called for.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle
Most moviegoers will have trouble looking past Culkin the actor, who does a decent job of sending up youthful fame in a movie that's barely worth the effort.
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30
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
The psychologizing in Party Monster never goes deeper than what you might get out of Dr. Phil on a bad day.
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25
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Feels fake, forced and indigestible.
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25
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
"Prison isn't all that different from a nightclub,'' comments Alig toward the end. Funny; this movie isn't all that different from prison.
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20
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
The wanton fabulistas of Party Monster are as boring and insignificant as the very "normals and drearies" they so contemptuously deride.
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20
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Wall Street Journal
The distance between tawdry and tedious can be amazingly short. It is traveled with Concorde speed in the arch Party Monster.
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