Idiocracy is easily the most potent political film of the year, and the most stirring defense of traditional values since Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.

| Apr 9, 2020

The whole film has a drab, somnambulant rhythm. Intentional or not, this is part of its genius.

| Oct 4, 2016

If the world is going to hell in any number of handbaskets -- as Judge so acutely demonstrates that it is -- you might as well hitch a ride in his.

| May 7, 2009

An intermittently amusing -- and sometimes lazy -- satire that plays like a so-so episode of Futurama.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 18, 2007

By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 8, 2007

The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.

| Oct 3, 2006

The delivery in Idiocracy is frequently flat, but its vision is dead-on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2006

Working on a sprawling canvas, Judge fills the screen with visual jokes, throwaway gags, and incisive commentary on the ubiquity of advertising.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 8, 2006

Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2006

Often stingingly funny -- and an undeserving resident of the summer's-end movie dumping ground.

Full Review | Sep 5, 2006

Ow! My brain!

| Original Score: D | Sep 2, 2006

Mike Judge's Idiocracy is absolutely a satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy Office Space, is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2006