'Tusk' opens with the sound of two men laughing at their own jokes, so I guess a doff of the cap is due to the filmmaker for encapsulating his movie so efficiently, right from the jump.

| Jun 18, 2016

Justin Long and Johnny Depp join the "Clerks" director for a weird, unpredictable movie that still feels like only Smith could have made it.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 28, 2015

Parts of it are funny, parts are suspenseful and parts of it - to put it mildly - are hideously awful. Horrible may be a better word than horrific.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 16, 2014

Nice as it would be to herald Tusk as a return to Smith's bold early period, the movie has a lurching tone and an airless atmosphere.

| Oct 16, 2014

Smith has always had a weakness for protracted dialogue, and in Parks he has a fitting muse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2014

I thought this was a really pointless exercise.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2014

If Kevin Smith was stoned when he thought up his excellent walrusian nightmare, then marijuana is the best creative medicine.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 3, 2014

"Excess" is Smith's middle name, so the show goes on . . . and on.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 2, 2014

Tusk is not a particularly good movie, but the vivid anxiety dream at its heart makes it one of the most personal films this writer-director has ever made.

| Sep 19, 2014

Tusk is an overextended, tonally incoherent joke that would make viewers squirm even if it didn't involve a bloody and demented medical experiment.

| Sep 19, 2014

If you're a Kevin Smith junkie, as I am, you'll appreciate the verbal pinwheels he spins around the horror genre in Tusk.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 19, 2014

Had Smith been more disciplined, the film's deliberately absurd plot twists might have been more alienating, and funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2014

A schizoid horror comedy with an identity crisis, shifting uncomfortably between shocking body horror and puerile Jackass-level cringe humor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2014

The screenplay feels like a series of tweets. And the appearance of a big star in a wink-at-the-audience disguise is a distracting stunt.

| Original Score: C | Sep 18, 2014

This tonal mishmash is a misfire of literally gross proportions.

| Sep 18, 2014

Smith seems to have been more charged up by the (profoundly ridiculous) ideas behind his movie than in making them work.

| Sep 18, 2014

Kevin Smith, of "Clerks," delivers a weird in-joke inspired by one of his podcasts. You probably had to be there.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 18, 2014

You can imagine Mr. Smith and his collaborators rolling in the aisles at their own preposterousness. If you can find your inner 16-year-old, you might just join them.

| Sep 18, 2014

Take The Human Centipede and sprinkle liberally with the old Bob and Doug McKenzie sketches from SC온라인카지노추천 and the result is Tusk, Kevin Smith's underbaked horror-comedy hybrid.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2014

It has a game cast, it's watchable, fun, sick, sad and has to be seen to be believed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2014