By this time, 50 years later (!), the foundation of this kind of film is held near and dear to moviegoers the world over.

| Sep 10, 2021

Episode 22: Roma / At Eternity's Gate / Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

| Original Score: 72/100 | Sep 3, 2021

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls isn't just a cult movie, it's the greatest cult movie ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

Never has camp and crazy looked as good!

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 11, 2018

Besides being an addictively entertaining guilty pleasure from beginning to end, it's that rare movie that transcends its opportunistic origins to become a true singularity; a movie like no other.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 7, 2016

Russ Meyer's ultra-lurid 1970 magnum opus, infamously penned by a young Roger Ebert, remains a towering achievement. What it achieves, however, is difficult to define.

| Oct 27, 2016

[UPDATED 2024 REVIEW] Caught in the right frame of mind, it offers plenty of groovy sights, but the violent climax is highly problematic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2016

Like Valley of the Dolls, Beyond is a howler of a movie, with the crucial difference being that Meyer and Ebert intended it that way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2016

A funky, wonky, and entertaining jolt into the decade that bred free loving, hipster rockers, and hippies...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2008

The very definition of self-conscious camp, certainly not Art but much too intelligent for Trash.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 25, 2008

An outrageously entertaining cult classic, and probably one of the most bizarre movies ever produced by a major Hollywood studio.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2007

This trashy, gaudy, sound-stage vulgarity about low life among the high life is as funny as a burning orphanage.

| Dec 17, 2007

Russ Meyer does mainstream, kind of.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2007

One of the strangest and wildest cult flicks to be ever financed by a major studio (Fox), this sequel has not aged well but it serves as a time capsule to its era.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 28, 2006

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2006

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is one of the most incomprehensible films I have ever seen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2006

Schlock most famous due to Roger Ebert's screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2006

With his first movie for a major studio, Meyer simply did what he'd been doing for years, only bigger and better.

| Jun 24, 2006

As his overactive jump cuts prove, Meyer directs films as though he's perpetually on the cusp of a fantastic orgasm.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2006

Any movie that Jacqueline Susann thinks would damage her reputation as a writer cannot be all bad. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls isn't -- which is not to say it is any good.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2005