Fetid, scuzzy, revolting, funny, erotic, perplexing and provocative, it's like the bastard child of Cape Fear, Written On The Wind and Killer Joe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

If you like that freaky, perverted feeling of spying on an even bigger freak show, you will find this film both fascinating and horrible to watch.

| Aug 14, 2017

Daniels turns out to be the ideal director for a film about the tendency of desire to turn sane minds to guacamole.

| Nov 9, 2016

[Daniels] can't find his directorial bearings.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 9, 2016

The Paperboy is not all bad, but it isn't all good either. I'm not quite sure what Daniels wanted his audience to walk away with.

| May 10, 2016

I'll just get it out of the way now: The Paperboy is unbelievably awful.

| Jun 28, 2013

The Paperboy is flawed, more deserving of a rubbernecking than a viewing. But it's hard to tear your eyes away.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2013

It may yet become a camp classic, if no other kind.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2013

With Precious and The Paperboy, Daniels has confirmed his status as the most emotionally incontinent director of his generation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2013

So bad it isn't even good-bad.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 14, 2013

A sleazy, overstuffed and terribly directed mess. But never boring and occasionally jaw-dropping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2013

Watch it with Killer Joe for the ultimate sweaty, twisted double-bill.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2013

Despite all its garish accoutrements and salacious underpinnings, The Paperboy can be a hoot to watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 26, 2012

"The Paperboy" is one of those rare examples where you might wish the movie was less faithful to the book.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2012

Yes, it's a dizzying stew set to boil.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012

The Paperboy is southern Gothic wallowing in the swamp of low camp. And if the wallowing were deliberate, this might have been hugely funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2012

The Paperboy bears some promise as a good-bad movie, but it unfolds as a bad-bad one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2012

It's a movie that seems to have a mild form of heatstroke: it's blurry, as if filmed long ago, and feverish, and the story wanders all over the place as if lost in a bayou. When it's over, you want to wipe your brow.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2012

The Paperboy is over-the-top every which way you look.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2012

This is just the sort of movie certain people are hoping to see when they go to the movies but would never say they go to the movies for.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2012