Clerks. 1994

Critics score:
88 / 100

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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: A buoyant, bleakly funny comedy chronicling a day's worth of activity at two adjoining stores. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A hoot one moment, a hiss the next, the film is about as even as a city road after a hard winter. But the script's sheer vigour sees us through. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. Read more

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Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Amateurishly acted, clumsily edited and slapped together out of what looks like surveillance camera footage, the thing bumps along not so much on talent as on audacity. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A collegiate and post-collegiate laugh fest. Read more