Gummo Reviews

A glue-sniffer's reverie and an aestheticized episode of Beavis & Butthead, explicitly and bracingly set up as an act of cinematic vandalism

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Gummo aims to be provocatively anti-everything: anti-Christian, anti-feline, non-narrative, unpolished, visually dyslexic, and imaginatively off-putting.

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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.

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Harsh, funny, repellent and occasionally quite moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

C'mon, Harmony. Mano a boyo. What are you really trying to prove here?

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It's bleak, brutal and redeemed only by Reynolds's outstanding performance.

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Directors have been hailed as visionaries for less.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

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Korine is the Jerry Springer of this world. He doesn't judge his subjects, he can still identify with them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Like watching life on the surface of an alien planet

| Original Score: 5/5

Less shocking than utterly boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10

Enter Harmony Korine's directorial debut: new trends in discouraging filmmaking.

| Original Score: 1/5

Its an underground wonder.

| Original Score: 4/5

Abounds with strange beauty.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Probably the vilest waste of 2 hours of my life.

| Original Score: 0/5

In real life, this town was devastated by a tornado 20 years ago. According to Korine's version of things, it never recovered.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

revels in the filth and squalor of the worst variations of human existence, without giving any true insight or understanding about the predicaments of its pathetic character

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

If not the single worst film of the decade, at least the worst of the year -- and I saw Tarzan and the Lost City.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

Korine's trying to offer a radical vision of rotten America, but the whole thing feels warmed over.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4