Marci X, though, is just clueless and sad, seemingly having missed the point that hip-hop is no longer a novelty to be slapped on the cheek with a white glove.

| Jul 29, 2014

[it] might better have been called Marci Why.

| Jul 29, 2014

Rudnick can be an extraordinarily clever writer, but he doesn't seem to understand that a screenplay has to entail more than a series of skit ideas strung together.

| Jul 29, 2014

Seemingly endless movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 26, 2010

It's no masterpiece, but I found it consistently good-hearted and sometimes hilarious, and the sparse crowd I saw it with was laughing as much as I was, especially at the outrageous rap numbers.

| Feb 28, 2007

A sketch comedy that misses more than it hits.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2004

The fatal flaw of Marci X is its complete and total disconnect from the contemporary zeitgeist of hip-hop culture in American society.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2003

A bad joke that turns out to be a bad movie as well.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Aug 31, 2003

If the context of Marci X were more realistic, a lot of these gags would soar. But the context is drag-show dinner theater.

| Aug 30, 2003

A talent-stuffed assemblage of barbs and giddy musical numbers that shouldn't be written off as a feature flop -- but savored instead for the cult-ready collection of late-night satirical skits and misses it is.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 27, 2003

Sports woefully outmoded cultural punchlines.

| Aug 26, 2003

The term 'wildly uneven' doesn't come close to charting the peaks and valleys of Marci X.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2003

The spoofs in Marci X are so old and dated, it boggles the imagination to think of what group might still be offended them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2003

Marci X plays like a satire made by people who don't know the worlds they're satirizing.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 25, 2003

If this had been released in, say, 1994 at the latest, it might have been cutting-edge. As it is, it's just so much sticky foam on the cappuccino.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 25, 2003

This is the kind of comedy in which the characters are construction-paper cutouts whose abrupt changes of heart are dictated entirely by the preposterous plot and not by psychological or social reality.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2003

Marci X gives Gigli a run for its money as the summer's worst movie.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 25, 2003

Director Benjamin doesn't really handle the material with the outrageous excess it deserves, with the result that the proceedings seem far too mild.

Full Review | Aug 25, 2003

The actors had little to work with in this passe social satire, but sharper performances might have saved Marci from total humorless ruin.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 25, 2003

Bring lowered expectations to Marci X, and you could discover a mildly diverting comedy.

| Original Score: C | Aug 23, 2003