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Janet Maslin, New York Times: The look of So I Married an Axe Murderer is crisply professional, and John Graysmark's production design provides an element of visual surprise. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Myers pumps out a river of inventive shtick, but it doesn't cohere or connect; he seems less a character than a comedian doing couch time on a late-night talk show. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: One of the most lame comedy whodunnits ever to make it to the screen. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A mediocre movie with a good one trapped inside. Read more
Leonard Klady, Variety: A tres hip slice of life about the dilemma of marital commitment with just a pinch of Hitchcock providing the cutting edge. Read more
Hal Hinson, Washington Post: It doesn't help matters much that director Thomas Schlamme pays homage to great marital murder mysteries of the past, mostly because the attempts to borrow from the classics are so halfhearted. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Axe is not art by any means. It's often overly taken up with resolving itself. But Myers and others create an enjoyably loose, anti-slick feeling about the affair. Read more