Kaboom: Critic Reviews

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Rotten Tomatoes: 91 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

Writer-director Gregg Araki makes an unwelcome return to the facile sexual-outlaw posing of his '90s movies.
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A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

60

[A] chaotic, trifling, oddly likable film.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Philip French Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

This is a wild movie in a Lynch-lite mode.
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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

60

Kaboom also resembles nothing so much as an episode of Scooby Doo without the dog, and with an awful lot of penetrative sex.
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Mark Jenkins Washington Post (Top Critic)

50

Sort of likable, despite Araki's utter lack of interest in charming anyone who isn't already a member of his small following.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

"Kaboom'' is currently having all the sex other American comedies are too shy and too commercial for.
Full Review » 2 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

[Araki's] assembled the best-looking cast in town and it's largely his gaga appreciation that makes the movie so much fun.
Full Review » 2 years ago
David Edelstein New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Kaboom might be borderline camp, but there's no spillover. Or perhaps it's the other way around. Perhaps Araki's vision of human sexuality is so fluid that the borders are always expanding.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Bruce Diones New Yorker (Top Critic)

The film is so disjointed and chaotic that the usual pleasures of Araki's films-which arise from the freedom that his lost boys enjoy-never take hold.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

The movie has been cast, designed, clothed, scored and edited to the bleeding edge of hip, but it hasn't exactly been written.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

Araki has been making movies for more than 20 years now, and his ideas haven't evolved all that much.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

17

What's going on? Who cares?
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V.A. Musetto New York Post (Top Critic)

50

"Kaboom" is a return to Araki's frivolous past -- fun to watch but mostly forgettable.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

38

This isn't satire, it isn't that funny and the only bits that work are the titillating ones.
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Bruce Demara Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

The film is Araki's most ambitious to date, with a quick pace, music that's hip and cool and a mood that alternates between playful and eccentric.
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William Goss Film.com (Top Critic)

Designed to have its own fun, filled to the brim with bangs of all kinds but mostly landing with a whimper.
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Stephen Cole Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

What pop spectacle!
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Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

A delirious and lighthearted pop spectacle with a dark undercurrent of apocalyptic horror, "Kaboom" is about 95 percent of the movie that writer-director Gregg Araki's fans have been waiting for.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

All that's truly strange here though is that Araki gets so few jolts or laughs from this hodge-podge of genres.
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

75

Kaboom is an erotic blast of sinful flesh, fun and fantasy that you don't want to stop.
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Richard Roeper Richard Roeper.com (Top Critic)

50

Sexy, dark, occasionally funny, good performances--but it's just too stupid to recommend.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Sam Adams Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

25

The fact that the characters spout snappy, profane dialogue while all this is, or isn't, going on around them is more "fun" than fun; Araki's like the too-drunk guy who won't go home when the party's over.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

70

Araki lets his absurdist imagination run wild, and "Kaboom" takes the time-honored gambit of gradually revealing that nothing is as it seems to delightfully cockamamie extremes.
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Jordan Farley SFX Magazine

60

there's no method to Kaboom's utter-insanity; it crumbles badly in the final minutes and reveals its central mystery as little more than a meaningless whimsy.
Full Review » 2 years ago