Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
Scores high on nastiness, but it has as many surprisingly funny moments as offensive ones.
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy.
With a hilarious script and capable cast, the film puts a clever spin on the everyone-is-a-suspect plot.
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Has a made-for-TV smallness (it will probably be a big hit on cable), and it never quite vanquishes the nagging suspicion that you could be spending your time better elsewhere.
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A funny comedy for about 90 seconds. Then Bette Midler goes off a cliff.
20
TimeRichard Schickel
TimeRichard Schickel
There's a definite limit to the number of moron jokes we can absorb in 100 minutes, and their movie exceeds it.
With a sneer and a wink, Drowning Mona plunges us into a fresh deluge of idiotic Americana .
10
NewsweekTed Gideonse
NewsweekTed Gideonse
As dumb as the film is, the actors escape relatively unscathed.
10
VarietyTodd McCarthy
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A white-trash black comedy, a caustic working-class whodunit in which the solution to the murder mystery takes a distant back seat to countless barbs and jibes tossed in the direction of the mostly imbecilic cast of characters.