Gummo 1997

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: C'mon, Harmony. Mano a boyo. What are you really trying to prove here? Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: No conceivable competition [this year] will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Korine's debut feature. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Perhaps Gummo was dismissed by many people because it obsessively investigates the gray area between being an object and being an actor in which filmed people necessarily exist. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: In real life, this town was devastated by a tornado 20 years ago. According to Korine's version of things, it never recovered. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Korine's objective is so narrow and mean, and his viewpoint so colored by smug, adolescent condescension, that Gummo comes off like a mean-spirited prank. Read more

Time Out: Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn't get any sharper than this. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Enfant terrible Harmony Korine makes a bizarre, idiosyncratic directing debut with his uncompromising look at youth alientaion in Middle-America, whose downbeat tone and off-putting imagery should appeal to small minority of viewers. Read more