Titanic carries some stinkers that wouldn't make the final draft of a Days of Our Lives script."
—David Edelstein, Slate
"Not just any kind of trash, it's high-art trash, a kind of 'When Tutu Goes Psycho' that so prizes hysteria over sanity that it's worth your life to tell when its characters are hallucinating and when they're not."
—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"With everything to work with, director Stanley Kubrick has teamed with jumpy Jack Nicholson to destroy all that was so terrifying about Stephen King's bestseller … The crazier Nicholson gets, the more idiotic he looks."
"The one thing we would note with disappointment is that, among the stuffed birds that adorn the motel office of [Anthony] Perkins, there are no significant bats."
—Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
"So chic, studied, and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film… Set in a rainy, portentously unnamed burg (The City of Dread?) where overhead lighting has yet to be invented, Seven seems to believe that if you drop enough references to Dante and Chaucer you have achieved seriousness."
—David Ansen, Newsweek
"This movie inspires no fear in me, but loathing? Yes. Oh yes."
—Barbara Shulgasser, Examiner
"An exasperating and self-defeating experience, rather like listening to a nymphomaniac extol the virtues of celibacy."
—Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman
"The old master has turned out another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares."
—Time
"One way to salvage some fun with this blunderbuss would be to fall asleep while watching and dream up a better movie yourself. Try it. You'll avoid a headache."
—Kelly Vance, East Bay Express
"I've had mosquito bites that were more passionate than this undead, unrequited, and altogether unfun pseudo-romantic riff on 'Romeo and Juliet'."
—Marc Salov, The Austin Chronicle
"Blue Velvet is like the guy who drives you nuts by hinting at horrifying news and then saying. 'Never mind.'"
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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