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Janet Maslin, New York Times: Shakes the Clown has been photographed as poorly as it was conceived. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Basically a redneck drive-in movie in style and delivery. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie plays like a series of scene outlines -- ideas for how the movie should progress -- that needed more writing and revision before the actors were called in. Read more