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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New YorkerThe New YorkerWaters gets uniformly bright performances from the large cast -- especially Christina Ricci as Pecker's girlfriend and Mary Kay Place as his mother -- and he succeeds in composing yet another twisted love letter to his home town.
- 80Film ThreatRon WellsFilm ThreatRon WellsWaters brilliantly skewers the pretensions of the New York art world and culture, and uses real people from that world in the process.
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatSure, it's lighthearted fare, but that doesn't make it any less of a good film.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanIf scandal, sleaze, and celebrity worship are our national religion, then John Waters is an American prophet.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAs a whole, Pecker is enjoyable but also feels scattered and transitory.
- 60VarietyEmanuel LevyVarietyEmanuel LevyA pleasant but ephemeral spoof that may disappoint Waters' hard-core fans while not recruiting many new devotees.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWaters follows these characters through their 15 minutes of fame without ever churning up very much interest in them.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghWe've come a long way from the filthiest people in the world: Who knew Waters could be so bland?
- 40L.A. WeeklyManohla DargisL.A. WeeklyManohla DargisIt's no doubt rude, and perhaps irrelevant, to point out that John Waters still doesn't know how to make a movie.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWatching Pecker, his rickety new comedy about a teenage Baltimore shutterbug, it becomes clear that Waters has grown color-blind to his own sleazo-shock aesthetic.