Showgirls: Critic Reviews

67%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 47 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 17 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

Full Review » 9 years ago
Susan Wloszczyna USA Today (Top Critic)

63

[The script] is as hoary as it is whore-y, whipping out every backstage cliche as he recycles his Flashdance plot into Trashdance.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

An overcoat movie for men who don't want to be seen going into a porno theater.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

To take Showgirls that seriously (as either trash-art or appalling pornography) wouldn't be worth the exertion.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

A waste of a perfectly good NC-17 rating.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

The script -- a generic blend mixing the soap of All About Eve with the suds of Valley of the Dolls -- is replete with the clunkiest dialogue this side of Peyton Place.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

13

One of the worst films of the year.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Full Review » 8 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

A film of thunderous oafishness that gives adult subject matter the kind of bad name it does not need or deserve.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

75

...a bad film, borderline inept, with an anti-erotic toxic charge about it. It deserved all the mean things people said about it.
Full Review » 2 years ago
James Plath DVDTown.com

40

Beneath the Vegas glitz beats the heart of a cheap B-movie porno in Showgirls, a movie that truly is so bad it's funny.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Stanley Kauffmann New Republic

Full Review » 3 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

20

Even the grossest porn is more cheerfully sexual than this movie.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

The film emerges as a plastic, awkward mess without a hint of eroticism or genuine sexuality (not unlike Jerry Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly).
Full Review » 6 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

17

A bore with nothing much to say about anything and for that matter not much to look at.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Mark Robison Reno Gazette-Journal

50

So bad, it's fun.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Fred Topel About.com

It's great that a critically and publicly lambasted movie gets a special edition [DVD] that gets it.
Full Review » 8 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

20

...despite its rampant sexual material, it is not a sexy film. Dang, this thing couldn't get anything right.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Eric Henderson Slant Magazine

100

Showgirls is one of the most honest satires of recent years.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat

20

Full Review » 8 years ago
Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly

0

Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

0

Tasteless, tawdry, and guaranteed to leave you rolling in the aisles... the best bad filmmaking Hollywood has to offer.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jon Niccum Lawrence Journal-World

60

One of the most entertaining bad movies of all time.
Full Review » 8 years ago