Mildly scabrous.

| Original Score: B | May 3, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2001

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Barely coherent mishmash.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Cecil ... is far from demented enough.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The problem with John Waters making a movie about the sorry state of commercial cinema is that his output is only a little more useful than what he's satirizing.

| Jan 1, 2000

Not even the reassuring familiarity of the Waters stock company (including Mink Stole, Ricki Lake and, pointedly in this case, Patty Hearst) is enough to fully redeem this effort.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's sad to report that the only remotely shocking thing about [Cecil B. Demented] is the heavy-handedness of its humor and the blunt ineffectiveness of its diatribes.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film can't sustain its initial high attack, and ends up seeming a bit of a fizzle, mischievous rather than genuinely wild.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A fast, furious and funny fusillade of a movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A losing battle.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Waters' outlaw analyses of pop culture, always a crucial part of his films, have now started to consume them.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2000

An insufferable, self-important, sloppily made bore of a tirade.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Where once Waters was brilliantly polluted, now he comes off diluted.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Waters' writing has never been sharper or more focused than in Cecil B. Demented.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Hamstrung by a script that is too often smug, obvious and self-important -- all qualities that Waters used to lampoon mercilessly.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000