The film is a purely visceral experience, which by and large does everything it sets out to do – repel, amuse, horrify, bore – with a sickening but punk-rock panache.

~ David Graham -

The film is a purely visceral experience, which by and large does everything it sets out to do – repel, amuse, horrify, bore – with a sickening but punk-rock panache.

~ David Graham -

While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.

~ Neil Mitchell -

While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.

~ Neil Mitchell -

The glorious sight of a flying nun, an image Korine has said was one of his inspirations for the film, is both a moving and a joyous one.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The glorious sight of a flying nun, an image Korine has said was one of his inspirations for the film, is both a moving and a joyous one.

~ Paul Griffiths -

The film's saving grace are the performances.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

The film's saving grace are the performances.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Gummo rewards repeated viewings like little else; there is so much to be gleaned from every vignette and even more from the film as a whole.

~ David Graham -

Gummo rewards repeated viewings like little else; there is so much to be gleaned from every vignette and even more from the film as a whole.

~ David Graham -

Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.

~ Paul Griffiths -

Hollywood is full of tales of people like Moondog who discover the true meaning of life when they get sober. Korine isn't that naive.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hollywood is full of tales of people like Moondog who discover the true meaning of life when they get sober. Korine isn't that naive.

~ Jennie Kermode -