The most out-in-the-open, the most outrageous, and the best Warhol film yet.

| Sep 21, 2022

The Warhol-Morrissey world is a strange one, but in many, ways, especially if taken in infrequent doses, a far more real world than the formula Hollywood drama or comedy. The actors are solidly in touch with their madness and can improvise with wit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 21, 2022

It was evident in Flesh that Morrissey was both a more compassionate and more formal filmmaker than Warhol... And now in Trash, he actually has somebody convincingly playing someone other than himself.

| Sep 21, 2022

It's bilge but fascinating bilge and thanks to Miss Woodlawn sometimes very funny, very delightful bilge.

| Sep 21, 2022

Trash is Warhol's most entertaining movie to date. It's funny and sad all the way through. It has a kind of Huckleberry Finn mood to it.

| Sep 21, 2022

It is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, always powerful study of the garbage some of the beautiful flower children became in their search for truth, love and Darma amid the rubble of the East Village.

| Sep 21, 2022

Personally, I found much to amuse and also to admire in the style and nothing to shock -- but then I have seen over the years many such films in London and at the foreign film festivals.

| Sep 21, 2022

Morrissey’s slow, slow direction and the druggy, schizoid stare of his camera represent the height of noninvolvement, yet the effect is curiously intimate.

| Sep 21, 2022

The film tends to make scavengers of its audience. Scabrous as it is, Trash has moments of poignancy and others of sheer farce. But you have to rescue them from the rubbish yourself.

| Sep 21, 2022

Their dialogue -- inarticulately and tediously improvised -- makes one hunger for the most rudimentary script.

| Sep 21, 2022

[The focus] is sordid, not to mention morbid, the people jaded to the point of depravity. Indeed, the only artistic excuse for Trash is that such people do unfortunately exist and that Mr. Morrissey and his actors do a fantastic job portraying them.

| Sep 21, 2022

You get the impression that the characters' screen roles account for only part of their weirdness. In that, Trash offers a look at a way of life, the junk, welfare, and garbage-picking included, that's as disappointing and as rewarding as any.

| Sep 21, 2022

It is loaded with four-letter words and acts, and even this would be tolerable if it all were not so loathsome. Trash is ugly and depressing. But, we've always known that.

| Sep 21, 2022

I've seen people walk out on less lurid depravity.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 21, 2022

Worse than exhibitionism is the exploitation that goes into these films. The genuine wrecks of society are parodied by comparatively sane and often wealthy entrepreneurs like Warhol and his stock company.

| Sep 21, 2022

It has been drummed over and analyzed through most of its obscenities for its philosophic core, which is rather like shaking an idiot in the vain hope that something will escape his lips other than vomit. Nothing does. Trash Is worthless excess.

| Sep 21, 2022

Flesh and Trash are both eulogies to Dallesandro's body, but are also both moralistic to the point of being puritan about sex in general, and the female sex in particular.

| Sep 21, 2022

Trash is true-blue movie-making, almost epic, funny and vivid, though a bit rotten at the core. I'm writing this on Monday and I'll say, quite simply, that it's the best American film made in New York that I've seen all day.

| Sep 21, 2022

Woodlawn and Dallesandro make a great vaudeville team: She’s the screwball yin to his brain-fried yang.

| Apr 5, 2022

Is it fair that Trash should be stigmatised, while the real trash -- the leery, glossied-up sexploitation movies -- gets by?

| Jun 8, 2020