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

| 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

Isn't anarchic and invigorated but sloppy and limp.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 16, 2011

The tone and production values suggest a mixture of daytime soap, gay porn and Twilight slash-fiction, but the film's greatest asset, as ever with Araki, is sincerity.

| Jun 14, 2011

This is a wild movie in a Lynch-lite mode.

| Jun 12, 2011

A very peculiar campus comedy in which the students seem to have abandoned any pretence of intellectual endeavour for a non-stop merry-go-round of bed-hopping.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2011

Two very different films have been mashed up in Kaboom...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2011

Watching films whose characters spend much of their time staring at computer screens or waking up from dreams is a bit of a drag.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2011

Kaboom also resembles nothing so much as an episode of Scooby Doo without the dog, and with an awful lot of penetrative sex.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2011

Bright and intoxicating, but too cluttered to be placed alongside the director's best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2011

[Araki] made The Living End, Mysterious Skin and other anthems to gay America. Kaboom is less an anthem, more a discordant impromptu.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2011

If there's an undercurrent of impending cataclysm in today's culture, 'Kaboom' senses that feeling, seizes it in a surreal clinch and hurtles with it off a cliff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2011

Designed to have its own fun, filled to the brim with bangs of all kinds but mostly landing with a whimper.

| Jun 6, 2011

Gregg Araki's sci-fi is a weird and, just occasionally, wonderful skew on the college comedy. Slight but fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2011

I've often thought that I'd like to see a bit more of Juno Temple. After seeing Kaboom, I don't think it'd be possible to see more of Juno Temple.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2011

What pop spectacle!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2011

The film is Araki's most ambitious to date, with a quick pace, music that's hip and cool and a mood that alternates between playful and eccentric.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2011

All that's truly strange here though is that Araki gets so few jolts or laughs from this hodge-podge of genres.

| Apr 8, 2011

Araki deserves credit for maintaining his independent spirit. But "Kaboom" is short on impact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2011

The fact that the characters spout snappy, profane dialogue while all this is, or isn't, going on around them is more "fun" than fun; Araki's like the too-drunk guy who won't go home when the party's over.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Mar 22, 2011