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Very Bad Things: Critic Reviews

67%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Full Review » 14 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

40

...Berg's listless direction brings the film so little point of view that it doesn't much matter who lives or dies.
Full Review » 12 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

40

The gross-out humor lacks edge, the guilt never kicks in, and the outrages are predictable. It's one flat brewski.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

Peter Berg's Very Bad Things isn't a bad movie, just a reprehensible one.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

...uneven but frequently funny...
Full Review » 12 years ago
Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

Full Review » 9 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

It's entertaining to a degree, but lacks all of the elements necessary to form a truly compelling motion picture.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

40

Berg is so in love with his escalating shock tactics that they quickly cease to shock.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

...hollow, simple-minded and about as profound an experience as stepping in a pile of road kill.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Tony Macklin tonymacklin.net

60

Very Bad Things is a horrible hoot. It is one of those movies that put you through the wringer. It doesn't tickle the funny bone -- it pulverizes it. You don't know whether to laugh, gasp, or walk out.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Beth Accomando KPBS.org

90

Very Bad Things is a deliciously nasty morality tale that simply warns viewers that what goes around comes around.
Full Review » 4 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

75

...one of the more effective black comedies to come around in quite some time.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

100

A Swiftian satire on white yuppies -- it's American Psycho with five psychos.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com

70

A vicious, disturbing black comedy that delivers a wickedly entertaining ride if you don't take it too seriously.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Garth Franklin Dark Horizons

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

40

Full Review » 8 years ago
Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly

50

Full Review » 9 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

63

His [Berg] one serious mistake is to confuse gore with terror.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Dwayne E. Leslie Boxoffice Magazine

70

...the film wages a war against one's moral senses in a story that's unforgettable.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Xan Brooks Sight and Sound

50

The trouble is that Berg doesn't seem sure how to draw matters to a close.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Farber Movieline

60

There are some hysterically funny bits, but the excessive violence sometimes kills the laughter.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

75

a blood-soaked parody of the American dream
Full Review » 11 years ago
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle

30

There is a line between gallows humor and tastelessness, but Very Bad Things apparently doesn't have a clue where that might be.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jack Garner Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

60

He [Berg] stages several legitimately funny moments of ghoulish humor and builds the comic and dramatic tension to a hilariously out-of-control finale.
Full Review » 12 years ago
David Luty Film Journal International

It's the eternal question.
Full Review » 12 years ago