I don't know if the lawyers are currently scanning the contracts for Striptease in order to find out what went wrong in the small print, but someone got badly conned; and that someone is mostly the audience.

| Nov 28, 2017

Yet another case of the star's salary being much more interesting, and exuberantly vulgar, than anything the screen reveals.

| Jun 18, 2014

The Striptease script... is at a loss for any kind of drama between Moore's dances. Not for a second do we care about her as a mother, wife or working woman.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2014

The film's premise is thinner than the heroine's G-string.

| Jun 18, 2014

Bergman, who made The Freshman and Honeymoon in Vegas, provides quotable one-liners for everyone (especially Rhames), and a bevy of strippers lend colorful albeit stereotypically ditzy support.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 18, 2014

Men will doubtless be lured to Striptease by Moore's beautifully sculpted body. But it's the heart she puts into Erin that gives this more erratic than erotic picture the centering presence it needs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 18, 2014

If you get stuck at Striptease, my advice is to relax and try to enjoy its occasional pleasures.

| Jun 18, 2014

Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents [Moore] as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter--can't afford to waste time there, given the amount of busy work he has to.

| Jun 18, 2014

The result is a perversely odd concoction: a comedy that has fun with everything but stripping -- which, post-Showgirls, would seem to wear the biggest bull's-eye.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2014

Striptease stinks. Yes, that's a crude, perhaps even rude, assessment. But crude and rude are the two terms that sum up this alleged comedy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 18, 2014

This may sound like a suspense movie, but it's not. There's no mystery (we know who the bad guys are) and the damsel-in-distress angle generates zero tension.

| Jun 18, 2014

The Fort Lauderdale setting imparts little flavor or atmosphere, and the same goes for the flagrantly unerotic dances.

| Jun 18, 2014

A dark comedy about sleaze, corruption and naughty behavior below the Bible Belt, Striptease doesn't quite come off.

| Jul 6, 2010

This is pitched too close to caricature to engender suspense, but lacks the crisp, acerbic wit which distinguishes Hiaasen's prose.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2003

We can render a verdict on the movie now: It's an interesting misfire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2002

This film falls victim to a clash of sensibilities that is fatal.

| Feb 14, 2001

Who told Demi Moore she can act? She can't. End of discussion.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

In the wake of the debacle known as Showgirls, Striptease has had to fight to establish its separate identity and credentials. In retrospect, it appears to have been wasted energy.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000