5
Metascore
10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickTo say that Vulgar is not for all tastes might be the understatement of the year. For starters, this black comedy has a male rape scene that makes the one in "Deliverance" seem mild by comparison.
- 20L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyFirst-time director Bryan Johnson's failure to resolve the film’s two moods -- psychopathic sexual brutality and light social satire -- proves fatal.
- 10New Times (L.A.)Andy KleinNew Times (L.A.)Andy KleinThe acting tends toward the cartoonish (not in a good way), and the story is built on a series of illogical motivations.
- Johnson does seem to have some psycho-sexual ax to grind amid all this visual and sexual crudity. For instance, women barely figure in the action, with Will taking on various stereotypical feminine attributes. But good luck finding meaning in all this mess.
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe only thing shocking about it, however, is the degree to which self-congratulatory gutter exhibitionism has become the degraded ash end of indie ''edge.''
- 0San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannIt's impossible to imagine why Lions Gate, the indie distributor that released "Monster's Ball," would bother with this garbage.
- 0VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyInexplicably mixing lamer-than-lame "bad taste" comedy with yea worse traumatized-assault-victim histrionics, pic's only entertainment value lies in viewer weighing whether pic is primarily a.) offensive b.) amateurish c.) pathetic or d.) a cry for help.
- 0Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombSure to appear in everyone's worst-of lists at year's end, to say nothing of a few bad dreams, Bryan Johnson's Vulgar is an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse.
- 0TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghVulgar doesn't begin to describe it: Try one of the foulest, least funny films ever made under the rubric of black comedy.