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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60New Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufNew Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufSince the movie arrives and succeeds as entertaining B-movie fare, we may as well appreciate all of its howls, beastly or unintentional.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyAt its best, Queen is campy fun like the Vincent Price horror classics of the '60s. At its worst, it implodes in a series of very bad special effects.
- 50Miami HeraldCharles SavageMiami HeraldCharles SavageThe original rock songs on the soundtrack, which are supposed to make Lestat ''bigger than Elvis,'' are terrible -- a common challenge for movies about fictional musicians.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is happy to be goofy.
- 50Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrDegenerates into a lot of dull declaiming and attitudinizing, despite a sly tongue-in-cheek quality brought by a preening Stuart Townsend to the Lestat role he inherited from the utterly humorless Tom Cruise.
- 40Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorThe result is an exploitation movie that seems like it's about something -- though what exactly I couldn't say.
- 38New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe main theme is the loneliness of the social outcast. That, plus a soundtrack to wake the undead, and the morbidly entombed presence of Aaliyah, will attract an audience despite the movie's intrinsic cheesiness.
- 30Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternKnows that it's junk and tries feebly to rejoice in its junkiness.
- 25Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowThis kind of fiasco turns movie critics into so many Night Stalkers.
- 20The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. Scott"Queen" is a movie that stoops to jokes like calling Lestat's CD "a monster hit"; the movie is just a plain old monster.