Kevin Smith's second foray into genre territory is a mostly successful tonal mishmash with some of the most grotesque imagery to come out of the 2010s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2023

Aside from Johnny Depp's inscrutable "French Canada" accent, Kevin Smith's second horror film is bizarre, unsettling and frequently very funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2023

The material never quite commits itself tonally. Some scenes feel like a grotesque chiller, others play like your usual Smith-brand comedy. When Smith tries to combine these two tones, the unbalanced result is more awkward than enjoyable.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 29, 2022

Is it tonally inconsistent? Yes. Could I look away? Absolutely not. There's just something charming about this horrific piece of body horror. But if Kevin disrespects the sanctity of a Double-Double again we might have words.

| Feb 7, 2022

Far more effective when it's telling instead of showing.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 31, 2021

Warrants a short film, not a ninety-minute movie that feels much longer than it actually is because of self-indulgent direction.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2021

A thought-provoking, subtextual philosophical commentary on humanity and man, with an emotional and visual depth that is undisputedly the best work of [Kevin] Smith's career, Tusk is both brilliantly disturbing and disturbingly brilliant.

| Dec 14, 2019

It's a notable return from Smith, and despite the many conversations about retiring as director, he seems to have enough vivaciousness to crack out something fun, surprising, and energetic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2019

Smith overreaches to touch upon what humanity really means without any actual interest in exploring that topic.

| Original Score: 1.75/5 | Jul 18, 2019

Is [Tusk] a good movie? Eh. Did it make me laugh? Absolutely. Will I watch another "horror" movies by Kevin Smith? YES.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2019

Parks does an amazing job in this role, to the point where his insane Human-Centipede-like scheme actually seems plausible.

| Mar 2, 2019

Smith has created a film that is genuinely horrific.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 8, 2018

It's weird, fun, and surprisingly touching, a film that works way better than it has any right to.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2018

If you are looking for an absurd yet original horror-comedy, Tusk mostly fills this void.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 23, 2018

Contemporary self-referential sneering.

| Sep 6, 2018

Warts and all, this is a step in the right direction for Smith, whose customary rough-around-the-edges sloppiness has given way to more polished - and more audacious - genre splicing.

| Aug 21, 2018

Tusk's biggest strength is that it knows what the audience's expectations are and it exceeds each of them. It is preposterous, disgusting, and hilarious. It is destined to be a classic, and was a hell of a lot of fun to watch.

| Aug 21, 2018

Kevin Smith delivers a deeply disturbing movie that throws up plenty of questions about monsters and humanity yet still manages to give audiences enough of the Smith humour, charm and charisma that they'll be familiar with by this stage of the game.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 11, 2018

[Kevin] Smith needs to focus on this genre for a change.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2017

Kevin Smith has lost his mind.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2016