...affection, not derision, lead the way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 29, 2021

That's what Waiting for Guffman is, a big bowl of laughs, reliant on peculiar characters, with actors who are all committed to the bit.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 20, 2020

Fab small-town spoof; subtle humor may bore kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

The songs (co-written by Guest and Tapster Harry Shearer) are suitably ridiculous and the deadpan gags come thick, fast and too numerous to mention, all delivered with knuckle-gnawing subtlety by the C-list cast with A-list style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2008

Frequently funny -- sometimes very funny indeed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2008

This 1997 comedy may be amusing if you feel a pressing need to feel superior to somebody, but the aim is too broad and scattershot to add up to much beyond an acknowledgment of small-town desperation.

| Aug 12, 2008

Raucous, outrageously funny, and filled with many zany scenes.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 25, 2007

One of the funniest movies ever made, 'Waiting for Guffman' spoofs everything from documentaries and talent shows to local politics and alien abductions.

| Jun 10, 2007

A madcap gem.

| Original Score: A | Feb 27, 2007

Trabalhando em um subgnero que praticamente ajudou a crier (o do pseudocumentrio), Guest cria mais um filme que diverte por compreender to bem seu tema e seus personagens.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2006

A sly, gleeful and subtle comedy that pokes fun at American musicals, amateur theatricals, and the culture of celebrity-the universal wish to be famous--set in the small, provincial town of Blaine about to celebrate its 150th anniversary.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 19, 2006

The comedy has the slow burn of a richly nuanced and non-judgmental character study.

| Jan 26, 2006

It's Corky's movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 21, 2004

Guest's satire of small-town America and amateur actors has a sly edge, it's not mean, and Guest never strips his characters of their dignity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2004

Where This Is Spinal Tap took rock music and the media as its focus - fat, juicy targets just asking to be lampooned - Guest's target here is small-town provincials.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2004

It keeps you laughing from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 84/100 | Mar 16, 2004