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Movie Review for Showgirls
Movie Review for
Showgirls
21 Reviews total.
Release date: 9/22/1995
Run length: 131 mins.
Categories:
Drama
Summary:
Nomi Malone is a fiercely independent young woman who comes to Las Vegas running from a troubled past. Looking for a break on the Las Vegas Strip, she lands a job as an erotic dancer at the Cheetah Club. But, to make ends meet, she also works as a lap dancer in the club's back room. Possessed of a raw and riveting dancing talent, Nomi is soon introduced to the vastly different world of the big Las Vegas shows--and the powerful men and women who run them. Zack, the handsome and ambitious entertainment director at the Stardust, could push Nomi into the spotlight. Cristal, the glamorous star of the stage show "Goddess," is inexorably drawn to Nomi's beauty and spirit and may make her... or break her. As the complex bonds of passion, jealousy and love form between them, Nomi is pulled deeper into the world she so desperately desires.
Reviews of Showgirls
By
Marjorie Baumgarten
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
The story is so shabbily built that it can make no valid claim to motives other than the filmmake...
By
Bryant Frazer
of Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (7/0)
Not only is this movie really dumb, but it's barely sexy, and not even close to explicit.
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
A waste of a perfectly good NC-17 rating.
By
John J. Puccio
of DVDTown.com (7/0)
...despite its rampant sexual material, it is not a sexy film. Dang, this thing couldn't get any...
By
Christopher Null
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
Showgirls is fun, pure and simple, as long as you don't take any of it seriously.
By
Rick Groen
of Globe and Mail (7/0)
The script -- a generic blend mixing the soap of All About Eve with the suds of Valley of the Dol...
Reviews of Showgirls
By
Bob Thompson
of Jam! Movies (7/0)
Just plain awful.
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
A film of thunderous oafishness that gives adult subject matter the kind of bad name it does not ...
By
Michael Dequina
of Mr. Brown's Movies (7/0)
Tasteless, tawdry, and guaranteed to leave you rolling in the aisles... the best bad filmmaking H...
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
A bore with nothing much to say about anything and for that matter not much to look at.
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
One of the worst films of the year.
By
Joe Baltake
of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
Showgirls approximates the feeling of someone sleazy putting the make on you. Its brand of sexual...
Reviews of Showgirls
By
Eric Henderson
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
Showgirls is one of the most honest satires of recent years.
By
Desson Thomson
of Washington Post (7/0)
To take Showgirls that seriously (as either trash-art or appalling pornography) wouldn't be worth...
By
Rita Kempley
of Washington Post (7/0)
An overcoat movie for men who don't want to be seen going into a porno theater.
By
Fred Topel
of About.com (3/4) No reference
It’s great that a critically and publicly lambasted movie gets a special edition [DVD] that gets ...
By
Kim Williamson
of Boxoffice Magazine (6/1) No reference
Perhaps the worst movie of the year.
By
Madeleine Williams
of Cinematter (6/1) No reference
Sloppy writing and wooden acting remove any sense of class from the production, and what's left i...
Reviews of Showgirls
By
Mark Robison
of Reno Gazette-Journal (6/1) No reference
So bad, it's fun.
By
Mick LaSalle
of San Francisco Chronicle (6/1) Not Reachable
Think of Flashdance but with an unappealing leading lady playing a woman whose fierce ambition is...
By
Barbara Shulgasser
of San Francisco Examiner (6/1) Not Reachable
Verhoeven, a Dutch filmmaker whose early works include the dazzlingly intelligent and anarchic Th...
Movie Distributors
MGM Distribution Company Production Companies
Vegas Productions
Chargeurs Productions Movie Studios
United Artists Films
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