Zack and Miri Make a Porno exposes Smith’s formula to its most naked structure, leaving his outline blatant and overexposed. We slowly realize that he’s been making the same movie over and over again: Sex comedies with surprising acumen and feeling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Whether or not genuine romantic drama was intended, the end result just isn't that funny.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 28, 2020

The View Askew universe is growing and Smith is becoming quite the filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

Kevin Smith's most accessible film, Zack and Miri Makes a Porno is arguably his most toothless, being as it is a rather sweet romantic comedy despite the porn element. But that's not to say it's no fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2019

Zack and Miri does nothing to raise the bar. It just sits on it.

| Oct 2, 2019

A solid comedy with a charming soft side.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2019

I will concede that once Zack and Miri starts to get soft and gooey, the edge and the filth loses a little steam. Still, I can't think of a recent comedy that has made me laugh as much.

| Original Score: B | May 22, 2019

Smith has a huge cult following because, when on form, he brings great dialogue, real emotions and laugh-out-loud adult humour to the party and that's exactly what he does here in his funniest film to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2018

A fundamentally conservative look at love that desperately thinks of itself as transgressive.

| Oct 17, 2018

Even though I saw it barely two months ago, it has gone right out of my head.

| Dec 30, 2017

Smith's second venture outside the View Askewniverse isn't quite the bold leap forward he was hoping to make.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

Some may tire of Smith's template of toilet humour and tits, but to others, those very same qualities are a guarantee of entertainment. Love him or hate him, Kevin Smith isn't afraid to hit new lows to get new laughs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2011

Smith's film is nothing more or less than a routine romantic comedy in an unaccustomed wrapper.

| Aug 16, 2011

Kevin Smith's latest offering provides a constant stream of laughs throughout its duration, but crucially fails to nail the emotional realism it tries so hard to achieve.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011

All in all it's a modern-day, Kevin Smith fairytale: a big-screen bearing, perhaps, of his soul at its sincerest and wittiest, if not filthiest.

| Original Score: B+ | May 6, 2011

Married, a father and pushing 40, Smith is no longer a trustworthy chronicler of 20-something slackers. He still can devise an impressively gamy set piece, but he's misplaced the humanity of his best work.

| Jul 6, 2010

Kevin Smith's ear for raunch is as piquant as ever, but he's moved beyond his usual unconvincing leads to Judd Apatow regulars Rogen and Craig Robinson.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2010

There are a number of gut-bustingly funny individual scenes, but the narrative as a whole lacks thematic cohesion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009