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Party Monster (2003)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:19
Rotten:54
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: The lurid display of camp soon turns tedious.
Theatrical Release:Sep 5, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $296,665
Synopsis: With PARTY MONSTER, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE) rework their 1999 shockumentary into a feature film. Based on the book by James St. James, PARTY MONSTER tells... [More]
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Wilson Cruz, Chloe Sevigny
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
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Reviews for Party Monster
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Rule No. 1: If you use black humor in a film about real-life characters and events, make sure you have a feel for it first. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Culkin se esforça, mas não convence como o bissexual Michael Alig. Em contrapartida, Seth Green rouba o filme com sua ótima performance.
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5/10 |
So awful, it’s almost good. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Never has the Manhattan club scene ever looked so tedious; this film makes a powerful argument for staying home and renting a movie. Full Review |
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Perhaps Party Monster’s limited distribution will keep this clunker from interrupting Seth Green's rise to the top of the Hollywood food chain. Full Review |
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2/4 |
It's the drunk-guy- at-the-party syndrome: The only one truly entertained by the clown with the lamp shade on his head is the clown with the lamp shade on his head -- or folks similarly inebriated. Full Review |
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C- |
A mess. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Memo to Macaulay Culkin: When your latest cinematic 'comeback' attempt is a film like Party Monster, maybe remaining in career limbo wasn't such a bad idea. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
The look, like Culkin's self-consciously manic performance, is all surface -- which may be the point of profiling these empty lives, but not enough reason to make us watch. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Fact-based story of drugs and death in "clubland" is boring and banal, failing in its attempt to shock and scandalize. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
We begin the film not knowing what brought Michael and James together. We end, after a too-long 98 minutes, precisely the same way. Full Review |
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C+ |
"... equal parts freakish fashion show and tawdry melodrama of the rise and fall of a superficial celebrity." Full Review |
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D |
As a human document 'Party Monster' is pretty much a disaster...shapeless and sloppy. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Like Alig, Party Monster is a colorful mess, all style and substances and little else. Full Review |
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2/4 |
In the end, for all the vibrancy, there's not much there there. Maybe that's the point, but I doubt it. Full Review |
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