Whether or not anyone thinks that it succeeds as a satire of the male gaze and objectification, it relishes in the trashiness of the surfaces it may or may not want to critique...the camp glory of Showgirls, however, comes from those very surfaces.

| Jun 5, 2024

Really, Paul? Plain and simple. Showgirls is pornography. In his hands, and those of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, it might be better labeled poor nography.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Clothing is not an option in Showgirls and after about 20 minutes of this slop, you'll be begging for someone to please put something on, take some acting lessons, and try to say one thing intelligent. Showgirls is bad almost beyond belief.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 29, 2024

Here's a first: An adults-only film that appears to have been written, produced and directed by children.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 28, 2024

Joe Eszterhas and Paul Verhoeven aren’t making the case for freedom of expression any easier... Showgirls is unmitigated, banal, exploitative garbage too stupid to be offensive, and its creators are the most cynical people in show business.

| Mar 27, 2024

Being charitable, Verhoeven is approaching this material like a smarmy European anti-materialist alarmist. If you don't want to be charitable, you'd have to say that Verhoeven has approached this script like an incompetent and exploitive sleazebag.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 27, 2024

The filmmakers rub our noses in the whole sordid sex thing we love to hate and hate to love, no doubt laughing at us the entire time, all the way to the bank.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 27, 2024

Showgirls delivers the bad-movie goods. It's a brain-dead insult of stupendous proportions.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 27, 2024

Whatever Eszterhas and director Paul Verhoeven may say about going behind the scenes in Vegas, they have made a film to highlight little more than prurient interest.

| Mar 27, 2024

Though partly redeemed by the strength and odd dignity of Elizabeth Berkley as the nubile beauty from nowhere... [Showgirls] adds up to little more than a glossy pornographic soap opera.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2024

Dirty, crude, often tasteless and at times downright nasty, Showgirls is also a gripping and uncompromising look behind the Vegas glitz.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2024

Showgirls will be remembered as one of the most expensively, indulgently horrible movies ever made -- cult trash certain to be treasured by connoisseurs of bad dialogue, lousy performances and crap on a spectacular scale.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 27, 2024

Director Verhoeven, a brilliant moviemaker, keeps punching Showgirls across with such galvanizing speed and vitality, such roaring movement and dazzling visuals, that you're continually sucked into every scene, even the stupidest ones.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2024

[Showgirls], which the world condemned utterly, I enjoyed. It moved fast, it looked glossy, and it had a plot. What more can one ask?

| Apr 4, 2022

Too tacky to have been in any top Vegas feather show.

| Mar 29, 2022

Perhaps you have been tempted by the hype over this movie's rating to go see what all the fuss is about. Crush that impulse.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 19, 2021

The entire picture isn't an exercise in eroticism as much as it's a jumbled series of excuses to have the cast take off their clothes.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jun 28, 2021

This is a camp masterpiece and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Showgirls' Camp influences, even shades of deliberate Camp, aren't so much the film itself but in-universe productions compartmentalizing excess into metatext.

| Sep 22, 2020

Practically nothing works in this tacky sashay through Valley of the Dolls clichés and unerotic burlesque.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 11, 2020