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Kyle Smith, New York Post: There's a fine horror film inside "Tusk," but it's only 20 minutes long. The rest is just blubber. Read more
Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: The most disgusting and pointless movie I've seen. Emphasis on pointless. I spent half the movie sick to my stomach. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Nice as it would be to herald Tusk as a return to Smith's bold early period, the movie has a lurching tone and an airless atmosphere. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: Smith has delivered a left-field surprise that ranks among his very best work ... Read more
A.A. Dowd, AV Club: Tusk grew out of a podcast joke, and it shows: There's a making-it-up-as-we-go-along quality to the movie, which seems too satisfied with its own nuttiness to be truly transgressive. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: Like most self-conscious attempts at a "midnight movie," Tusk lacks the conviction that would make it anything more than an outre curiosity; it's essentially a filmed dare, combined with fan service. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: This is a movie worth seeing. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Smith seems to have been more charged up by the (profoundly ridiculous) ideas behind his movie than in making them work. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This is gruesome but never scary, snarky but never funny. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Good trash or stupid trash? I'd say roughly half and half. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Take The Human Centipede and sprinkle liberally with the old Bob and Doug McKenzie sketches from SCTV and the result is Tusk, Kevin Smith's underbaked horror-comedy hybrid. Read more
Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: Tusk lands close to Human Centipede territory in gross-out-ness - a warning, not a complaint - but it also has a genuinely haunting quality ... Read more
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: This tonal mishmash is a misfire of literally gross proportions. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Kevin Smith, of "Clerks," delivers a weird in-joke inspired by one of his podcasts. You probably had to be there. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Most filmmakers start by making movies with their friends, just for their friends. Kevin Smith is the only filmmaker who seems to want to end that way. Read more
Mark Jenkins, NPR: Tusk is an overextended, tonally incoherent joke that would make viewers squirm even if it didn't involve a bloody and demented medical experiment. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Like many movies made by Kevin Smith, the director of "Clerks" and "Cop Out," his gothic horror comedy "Tusk" is alternately amusing, appalling and frustrating. It's also unique. Read more
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: You can imagine Mr. Smith and his collaborators rolling in the aisles at their own preposterousness. If you can find your inner 16-year-old, you might just join them. Read more
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: A schizoid horror comedy with an identity crisis, shifting uncomfortably between shocking body horror and puerile Jackass-level cringe humor. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: If you're a Kevin Smith junkie, as I am, you'll appreciate the verbal pinwheels he spins around the horror genre in Tusk. Read more
Thomas Lee, San Francisco Chronicle: You don't feel like you wasted your time with "Tusk." But that's the best compliment you can probably give a film like this. Read more
Rob Nelson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Kevin Smith's "Tusk" is an odd animal indeed, a movie that morphs early from stoner comedy to stoner horror flick and then, as if stoned, declines to evolve any further. Read more
Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It has a game cast, it's watchable, fun, sick, sad and has to be seen to be believed. Read more
Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail: If Kevin Smith was stoned when he thought up his excellent walrusian nightmare, then marijuana is the best creative medicine. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: "Excess" is Smith's middle name, so the show goes on . . . and on. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: It's not even that the film shifts wildly in tone as much as the fact that none of those tones work at all: the horror parts aren't scary and, surprisingly for Smith, the comedy bits aren't funny. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Too glib and self-satisfied to count as a success, yet too personal to fully dismiss, Tusk-which features Fleetwood Mac's annoying coke-fueled march of the same name-is slippery as a seal. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: There's too much forced winking in it; everything is a goof, a lark, a Smith-style in-joke for the in-crowd. Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Tusk is not a particularly good movie, but the vivid anxiety dream at its heart makes it one of the most personal films this writer-director has ever made. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: "Tusk" seems to harbor no grander ambitions than to create a gross-out gag. Read more