Total FilmA grindhouse mix of Wild Things, Killer Joe and Streetcar Named Desire, The Paperboy won't be for all. But it boasts a soupy...
The New York TimesIt is by turns lurid, humid, florid, languid and stupid, but it is pretty much all id all the time.
Chicago TribuneIt's errant camp, which has the effect of undermining our involvement in the mystery.
Salon ArtsMost of the acting in The Paperboy is actually pretty restrained, which helps you adjust to all the alligator guts, swamp wa...
New York Daily NewsThere is so much sweaty, gum-smackin', Southern-accented *acting* going on, you'd applaud if you weren't appalled.
Rolling StoneThis hot mess got booed by the snobs at Cannes, but there's no denying its profane energy.
USA TodayDaniels' deft adaptation of Pete Dexter's 1996 novel is even more disturbing on screen than on the page. It's a Southern Got...
Los Angeles TimesThere is so much grit in Kidman and McConaughey's performances, it's a lot for Efron to stand up to, but he does a good job ...
New York PostThe Paperboy can't decide whether to be an unfunny sex comedy, a half-hearted detective story or a woeful race drama - so it...
Washington PostThe entire cast of The Paperboy glistens with a golden sheen, as if they've been sprayed with Pam cooking oil.
The New YorkerIt's a good story about people who are not what they seem, about identity wavering in the heat-a true swamp tale-but the mov...
The Boston GlobeThis is just the sort of movie certain people are hoping to see when they go to the movies but would never say they go to th...
Chicago Sun-Times"The Paperboy" is great trash, and as Pauline Kael told us, the movies are so seldom great art that if we can't appreciate g...
ReelViewsWhatever else it may be cited for, The Paperboy, Lee Daniels' follow-up to Precious, is not going be called "the feel-good m...
Entertainment WeeklyThe Paperboy, a tale of homicide, hot-and-bothered sex, and rattlesnake-mean racism set in Florida in 1969, is Lee Daniels' ...
Black Sheep Reviews"The Paperboy" cements Daniels as a talented contemporary voice in American cinema, and a dirty one at that.
Film School RejectsThe Paperboy might include the most uncomfortable simulated sex scene in the history of mainstream American cinema, the cont...
JobloI won't be giving THE PAPERBOY a favorable rating, obviously, but I would recommend it to bad-movie lovers and seekers of gu...
JobloBut- it goes without saying that THE PAPERBOY will likely turn large chunks of the audience off. Certainly, a film that incl...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Lee Daniels
Writer: Peter Dexter
Studio: Millennium Films
Cast: Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman
Release: October 5, 2012
Writer: Peter Dexter
Studio: Millennium Films
Cast: Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman
Release: October 5, 2012
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