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Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Waters' writing has never been sharper or more focused than in Cecil B. Demented. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A fast, furious and funny fusillade of a movie. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: The problem with John Waters making a movie about the sorry state of commercial cinema is that his output is only a little more useful than what he's satirizing. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Waters' outlaw analyses of pop culture, always a crucial part of his films, have now started to consume them. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: As a satire, Cecil B. Demented is uninspired, and, as a motion picture, it's unfunny, charmless, and amateurish. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie has a radical premise ... but pitches it at the level of a very bad sketch on Saturday Night Live. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: [Waters] piles on one wacky notion after another, and somehow they stack without toppling. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: An audacious little comedy with bursts of hilarity and a certain giddy energy. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Barely coherent mishmash. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: An insufferable, self-important, sloppily made bore of a tirade. Read more