This isn’t a complete disaster of a film that the likes of Roger Ebert would make you believe. And there are highs and lows with this film...

| Oct 10, 2024

I can’t remotely claim this is a good movie, but I sure did enjoy terrible moments like the duet in a sanitarium.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 30, 2022

The cliches in the addiction storyline land with a real clunk because of the decision to call speed pills “dolls.”

| Jul 14, 2022

Sitting through two and a half hours of this sickening and tragic pill party gives a theater-goer a case of acute nausea.

| Mar 29, 2022

A must-watch even if the movie had nothing else going for it, which happily, it does.

| Jul 22, 2019

I knew the clothes would be terrific when I spotted "Handbags by..." in the opening credits. And it's the outfits (along with the unintentionally fevered atmosphere) which stretches this film up to two stars.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2019

The cliche of show business as a dream world may have been wide-eyed and saccharine. But Novelist Susann's view of Hollywood as nightmare Valley merely adds up to the old naivete in reverse.

| Mar 27, 2019

Valley of the Dolls rose from the ashes to become a so-bad-it's-good cult film of the highest order.

| Aug 27, 2018

In its melodrama, Valley of the Dolls may be reduced to trashiness, but we'd be denying its skill and sensitivity, and perhaps the value of trash. It's not so bad it's good; it's just good in a different way.

| Jul 20, 2018

It thinks it it is incredibly sophisticated and clever, when it is just the dumbest damn thing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 4, 2016

[UPDATED 2024 REVIEW] The newfound envelope-pushing in cinema, tested so brilliantly in 1967 by Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, is botched here.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 8, 2016

It has much of what we require from truly great camp; namely, it takes itself with utter seriousness, and the further it goes down that rabbit hole, the less aware it seems of its own ridiculousness, the funnier it becomes.

| Oct 2, 2016

Director Mark Robson gives the film a thin veneer of respectability, but mostly stands by while it descends into absurdity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2016

Dark, campy melodrama with focus on sex and drugs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2014

At the time sordid, now blase look at drug-infested Hollywood.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2009

Parkins and Tate, the latter particularly good, suffer from under-emphasis in early reels, and corny plot resolution.

| Mar 11, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2008

The choice of Mark Robson, a talented Hollywood journeyman director, for this piece of nonsense was inspired.

| Oct 17, 2007

Rent it and howl.

| Oct 17, 2007

Pure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2007