The Doom Generation 1995

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Sledgehammer direction, heavy irony and the easiest imaginable targets hardly show talent off to good advantage. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Plays like a low-budget Natural Born Killers -- and that is not intended as a compliment. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Striking to look at, though often offensively opportunistic, this mainly comes across as a throwaway shocker with energy to spare. There's not much thought in evidence though. Read more

Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly: Good luck searching for meaning -- you'll find mostly blood and epithets. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is the kind of movie where the filmmaker hopes to shock you with sickening carnage and violent amorality, while at the same time holding himself carefully aloof from it with his style. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Amy's a screaming, speed-addled banshee, and not the sort of chick you'd want to run into late at night (or spend 85 minutes with in a darkened theater). Read more

Time Out: Imagine Natural Born Killers with a sense of humour. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A nihilistic comedy about a trio of alienated youngsters, pic is bold not only in its art design, but also in its narrative and tone, a mixture of satire and horror with heavy dosage of steamy sex and macabre violence. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Inspired by Godard's classic Band Apart, Araki's fifth feature is his most audacious and most technically accomplished film to date, reflecting the larger than usual budget and gained experience. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: An arty atrocity for thugs and sub-literates that makes Natural Born Killers look like The Sound of Music. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The violence becomes commonplace. The crudities never end. But there are hip benefits for staying to watch. Read more