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Berg is so in love with his escalating shock tactics that they quickly cease to shock.

-Peter Travers

...hollow, simple-minded and about as profound an experience as stepping in a pile of road kill.

-Kenneth TuranFull Review

Peter Berg's Very Bad Things isn't a bad movie, just a reprehensible one.

-Roger EbertFull Review

...Berg's listless direction brings the film so little point of view that it doesn't much matter who lives or dies.

-Janet MaslinFull Review

The gross-out humor lacks edge, the guilt never kicks in, and the outrages are predictable. It's one flat brewski.

-J. HobermanFull Review

It's entertaining to a degree, but lacks all of the elements necessary to form a truly compelling motion picture.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

...uneven but frequently funny...

-Susan StarkFull Review

Berg ... brings wit, energy and a twisted kind of joy to a story that's little more than a tasteless anecdote.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

It's extremely lousy material, but these guys make the most of it.

-Paul TataraFull Review

A scabrous black comedy like no other I've ever seen...

-Joe BaltakeFull Review

Disappointing film, directed by a good actor, Peter Berg, who thinks his tale is clever and witty

-Emanuel LevyFull Review

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.

-Tony MacklinFull Review

Very Bad Things is a deliciously nasty morality tale that simply warns viewers that what goes around comes around.

-Beth AccomandoFull Review

...one of the more effective black comedies to come around in quite some time.

-David NusairFull Review

A Swiftian satire on white yuppies -- it's American Psycho with five psychos.

-Rob GonsalvesFull Review

A vicious, disturbing black comedy that delivers a wickedly entertaining ride if you don't take it too seriously.

-Chuck O'Leary

His [Berg] one serious mistake is to confuse gore with terror.

-Margaret A. McGurkFull Review

...the film wages a war against one's moral senses in a story that's unforgettable.

-Dwayne E. LeslieFull Review

The trouble is that Berg doesn't seem sure how to draw matters to a close.

-Xan BrooksFull Review

There are some hysterically funny bits, but the excessive violence sometimes kills the laughter.

-Stephen FarberFull Review

a blood-soaked parody of the American dream

-James KendrickFull Review

There is a line between gallows humor and tastelessness, but Very Bad Things apparently doesn't have a clue where that might be.

-Marc SavlovFull Review

...unpleasant and extremely unfunny...

-Jeff ViceFull Review

It's the eternal question.

-David LutyFull Review


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