It’s a glass of skim milk to the “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy” ’s heavy cream.

| Jun 30, 2023

This Gregg Araki joint is an absurd blend of sex and mayhem.

| Jun 16, 2020

Araki simply seems to be having fun here - the crazy, drunken college kind - at the expense of the audience and even his characters, who don't know what exactly is going on most of the time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2020

Sophomoric, silly and pretty much a high-concept sitcom in origin, production value and tone, Gregg Araki's candy-coated "Kaboom" is ridiculous, ultra-camp and likely only appeals to his small band of constituents...

| Original Score: C- | May 29, 2020

Funny, scary, and exuberant, Kaboom delivers the goods as both a generational marker and a tale of things to, uh, come.

| May 29, 2020

[T]he inconceivably bad, wholly inorganic latest from Gregg Araki, a lifetime purveyor of similarly ugly films that try to speak to a generation that, thankfully, never existed except for in Araki's developmentally stunted head.

| May 29, 2020

It adds up to a sick joke that's not quite mind-blowing, but there's a gleeful thrill that comes from seeing such unflinching, defiantly goofy weirdness once in a while.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2020

Mixing the sexual curiosity of "Doom Generation" with the kooky style of "Smiley Face," this admittedly uneven, undeniably wild and trippy comedy-fantasy-romance-thriller has a lot going on.

| May 29, 2020

[Araki's] overamped movie has nowhere to go, except for a confused finale that suggests an episode of "Twin Peaks" remade by the Scooby gang.

| May 29, 2020

What works best are the sex scenes, as the plot is just a distraction.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 30, 2019

Watch with friends.

| Nov 17, 2018

The thing that saves Kaboom from being just a tiresome sex farce or yet another camptastic David Lynch spoof is its amazing cuteness.

| May 22, 2018

Call it Scooby-Doo on animal nitrate.

| May 15, 2018

Shot in blinding colors, with an eye for artifice and a fixation on flesh, Kaboom is one happy, horny movie.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Kaboom plays out like a a ridiculously campy, and poorly written comic book. It's not very coherent and has a terrible ending.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 11, 2013

Araki has crafted an entertaining, violently funny movie that's amongst his best work yet.

| Sep 15, 2013

After walking out of KABOOM, I wanted to take a nice, hot shower to wash myself of this filthy film, but holy hell I had a blast.

| Oct 2, 2012

there's no method to Kaboom's utter-insanity; it crumbles badly in the final minutes and reveals its central mystery as little more than a meaningless whimsy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2011

Araki movies used to feel dangerous. This one feels like underfunded kitsch.

| Aug 12, 2011

Enjoy the audacious, electrifying and subversive components thrown at the audience in scattergun style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2011