Choke is a film that might disgust you, intrigue you, make you feel sympathy for a wretched character or two, but it certainly won’t leave a lasting impression.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2024

Manages to be thought-provoking and challenging even while assaulting the senses and overstepping the boundaries of good taste.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2020

A solid adaptation of Palahniuk's novel.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Although described as a dark comedy, CHOKE is anything but dark. Twisted, funny, strange, endearingly sweet, sincere, sexy -- yes. But nothing that won't get you CHOKE-D up with laughter and unbridled enjoyment.

| Nov 7, 2019

Choke is sometimes preposterous but always very funny. More to the point, it's always to the point.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2018

Choke bites off more than it can chew. . . Choke's story is too hard to swallow . . . Choke is indigestible . . . Enough already! Gag me with a spoon.

| Dec 16, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

We'll allow this sad little premature ejaculation of a movie to choke on its own insufficiencies.

| Aug 15, 2011

Choke is an admirably fearless no-net movie, but rather than wowing the crowd below, it lands in the center of the big top with a resounding thud.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2009

Squandered dime-store philosophy.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 19, 2009

Despite the busy plotwork, surprisingly little actually happens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 24, 2008

an erotic gospel for the secular age

Full Review | Nov 21, 2008

'Choke' never manages to be as edgy, amusing, insightful or plain messy as you'd hope it would be, especially considering its 'naughty' promotional poster and the distribution of anal beads as a marketing device.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 21, 2008

Uneven and oddly compromised in tone, Choke is a competent enough black comedy, but in the shadow of that other film, it never shines.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Choke is a confused sex comedy by Clark Gregg that blunders around for 90-odd minutes trying to look butch and sensitive.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 21, 2008

For all its flaws and fumbles there is a certain guilty pleasure in Choke.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

This adaptation of a novel by American provocateur Chuck Palahniuk is profane, offensive and obscene, and packed with balefully weak jokes.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 21, 2008

Choke was never going to win any prizes for subtlety, but by toning down Palahniuk's nastier absurdities in favour of obvious laughs, Gregg's adaptation is no more provocative than the average Carry On film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2008

But his sterility and romantically curved plot, twisted as it might be, feel respectively reductive and pat next to Palahniuk's fast, filthy and scabrous satirical stabs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2008

It's hard to know what aspect is the most offensive: the glib, cynical approach to mental illness; the sleazy sexism; the infantile attempts at blasphemy; or Rockwell's smug, boorish performance.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 21, 2008