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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: A buoyant, bleakly funny comedy chronicling a day's worth of activity at two adjoining stores. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A hoot one moment, a hiss the next, the film is about as even as a city road after a hard winter. But the script's sheer vigour sees us through. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. Read more
Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Amateurishly acted, clumsily edited and slapped together out of what looks like surveillance camera footage, the thing bumps along not so much on talent as on audacity. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A collegiate and post-collegiate laugh fest. Read more