There isn't an ounce of genuine affection on display.

| Mar 12, 2018

... shows that there's a lot more to this sordid story than first meets the jaundiced eye.

| Oct 3, 2017

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Rule No. 1: If you use black humor in a film about real-life characters and events, make sure you have a feel for it first.

| Mar 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 2, 2004

Culkin se esfora, mas no convence como o bissexual Michael Alig. Em contrapartida, Seth Green rouba o filme com sua tima performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2004

So awful, it's almost good.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 22, 2004

Never has the Manhattan club scene ever looked so tedious; this film makes a powerful argument for staying home and renting a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 22, 2004

Perhaps Party Monster's limited distribution will keep this clunker from interrupting Seth Green's rise to the top of the Hollywood food chain.

| Dec 15, 2003

It's the drunk-guy- at-the-party syndrome: The only one truly entertained by the clown with the lamp shade on his head is the clown with the lamp shade on his head -- or folks similarly inebriated.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 12, 2003

A mess.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 5, 2003

Memo to Macaulay Culkin: When your latest cinematic 'comeback' attempt is a film like Party Monster, maybe remaining in career limbo wasn't such a bad idea.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 5, 2003

The look, like Culkin's self-consciously manic performance, is all surface -- which may be the point of profiling these empty lives, but not enough reason to make us watch.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 5, 2003

Fact-based story of drugs and death in "clubland" is boring and banal, failing in its attempt to shock and scandalize.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2003

We begin the film not knowing what brought Michael and James together. We end, after a too-long 98 minutes, precisely the same way.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 14, 2003

"... equal parts freakish fashion show and tawdry melodrama of the rise and fall of a superficial celebrity."

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 13, 2003

As a human document 'Party Monster' is pretty much a disaster...shapeless and sloppy.

| Original Score: D | Nov 10, 2003

Like Alig, Party Monster is a colorful mess, all style and substances and little else.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2003