Clay Pigeons 1998

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A film that delights by confounding expectations. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: "You've got a sense of humor, I like that," Lester Long proclaims at one point. Well, we all like that, but would it be asking too much to have a little coherence to go along with it? Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is one of those motion pictures where the director (David Dobkin, in his feature debut) and the writer (Matt Healy) are so concerned about developing a clever, serpentine plot that they forget that there has to be a credible ending. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Within Clay Pigeons is a smaller story that might have involved us more, but it's buried by overkill. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Clay Pigeons may not actually be a good movie, but it has many of the ingredients of one. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: It's got unpredictable plot twists and unexpected laughs coming out of dark corners. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: This quirky comedy thriller, produced by Ridley Scott, is both blackly funny and, at times, tensely disturbing and quite macabre. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: Slanted as a black comedy, but fails to secure the sufficiently outre tone (let alone any real suspense) needed to make it more than a middling retread. Read more