Delirious: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 3 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 58 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

It would be nice to see a sharp, funny, penetrating satire of the new, kicked-up culture of empty media fame, but Tom DiCillo's scattershot buddy movie Delirious isn't it.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

50

Tom DiCillo’s angry comedy Delirious subjects modern celebrity culture to a microscopic examination that shows the toxic virus of fame squirming under its lens.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

Someday, far in the future, a team of archeologists will dig up the black, wizened, still beating heart of New York City, and it will look exactly like Steve Buscemi.
Full Review » 5 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Tom DiCillo's Delirious is a mild Midnight Cowboy, a minor King of Comedy, and mainly a vehicle for Steve Buscemi as a lower Manhattan-based paparazzo.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

75

In the end, I don't know that Delirious has all that much to say about the fame game, but you'll laugh nonetheless.
Full Review » 5 years ago
David Denby New Yorker (Top Critic)

The movie is exhilarating in a way that only hard-won knowledge of the world can be.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

Delirious, by writer-director Tom DiCillo, has a special quality because it does not make paparazzi a target but a subject.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

...it depends so consistently on plot contrivances and other movies (The King of Comedy,Midnight Cowboy, even All About Eve) that it often comes across as wannabe muckraking.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Tom DiCillo's Delirious, from his own screenplay, presents a paparazzo's worm's-eye view of the ridiculous world of celebrity culture.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jonathan Holland Variety (Top Critic)

A high-energy rags-to-riches satire about a deranged New York paparazzo and a wannabe thesp, Delirious is hilarious.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Despite some plot holes, Delirious hits the bull's-eye with razor-sharp performances and dialogue.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

For all its time-worn situations and observations, Delirious has a truth or two to impart about our lust for celebrities.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jonathan F. Richards Film.com (Top Critic)

DiCillo's themes are loyalty and friendship and betrayal and redemption.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

Delirious, is among DiCillo's best, and returns to the central theme of his career: the elusive and destructive nature of fame.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Sura Wood Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

70

No one is spared in this whip-smart comedy about the entertainment industry.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

75

Buscemi makes this pathetic and potentially lethal shutterbug a figure of surprising humor and compassion.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

80

It's an achingly funny film that is also a little sad around the edges.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Beverly Berning culturevulture.net

Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt are easily the best odd couple the movies have seen since Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

59

Leaves us with the same old familiar and empty Hollywood storyline on the world of celebrity culture.
Full Review » 3 years ago
David Cornelius eFilmCritic.com

70

It's not as sharp as his indie gems from the mid-1990s, but the thing's packed with bright performances and unique characters, which is what DiCillo does best.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jesse Hassenger Filmcritic.com

70

The film isn't as broadly funny as the previous DiCillo-Buscemi collaboration Living in Oblivion, but its outsiders peering in have an uncomfortable resonance.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI)

75

DiCillo hasn't lost his gift for artfully skewering both those basking in fame's spotlight and those lurking in the shadows, while still finding a measure of affection for all of them.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Sydney Morning Herald

Full Review » 5 years ago
Eric Kohn Orlando Weekly

50

A victim of its own vitriol.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile

This satirical comedy is a connoisseur's delight, with Steve Buscemi in top form as the runt of a paparazzo who tries to exploit a homeless young man.
Full Review » 5 years ago