...a rough-around-the-edges and fairly low-rent comedy that benefits substantially from its affable, easygoing sensibilities and raft of appealing performances...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2023

While Mallrats does play better now than when it was originally released, it still rests below a handful of more accomplished titles in Smith's View Askewniverse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2020

London and Lee expertly lead this cast of "misfit toys" in an appropriate follow up to Smith's debut, Clerks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2020

Thin yet enticing.

| Oct 25, 2019

How can a reviewer write about a movie that makes Dumb and Dumber seem like a Merchant-Ivory production?

| Aug 8, 2019

Smith manages to successfully subsume his slackers feel into a more cartoony aesthetic. And the mall ode-cum-satire, like with Clerks' convenience store, is brilliantly done.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

Retains enough Smith-isms to help navigate all potholes in execution. Flawed, yes, but Mallrats has its charms when it isn't shoving its hand up its own hindquarters.

| Original Score: B | Apr 20, 2014

Typical Kevin Smith fare; not suitable for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Almost everyone has lively things to say, the topics usually centering on the Kevin Smith triumvirate of sex, comics, and movies.

| Original Score: B | Sep 27, 2007

Ragged, messy, and flat, this is Kevin Smith's sophomore jinx; coming right after Clerks, it was a huge artistic and commercial flop

| Original Score: C- | Dec 27, 2006

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 22, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2005

There must be a helluva lot of Mallrats fans out there, and I feel pretty confident in saying that they'll pretty much adore this new DVD edition.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2005

How did Kevin Smith gain any fan base? This clunker made a bundle.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 15, 2004

Fun, but the least of Smith's Jay and Silent Bob films.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2004

Sophomoric silliness.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 13, 2004