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Breakfast of Champions
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42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 17
  3. Negative: 6 out of 17
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  1. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    80
    An adaptation that can rightfully be called brilliant.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    70
    It's great unruly fun.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.
  4. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    59
    Just isn't funny enough to sustain the lunacy.
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  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    Among the year's biggest disappointments.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end.
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  7. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    50
    Fails in a pretty spectacular manner but, to its everlasting credit, it goes down swinging and sometimes even connecting.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    50
    Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle.
  10. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    40
    Quite a spectacle, but the movie falls flat.
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  11. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    40
    A weirdly stillborn experience.
  12. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    Vonnegut's brand of juvenile surrealism...doesn't age especially well...but it could hardly be worse served than to be brought to the screen with such ham-fisted literal-mindedness.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    30
    Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.
  15. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    25
    It's both amazing and depressing how much talent goes to waste in the lame adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1973 absurdist novel.
  16. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    25
    This is the most-off-the-mark adaptation of a novel since Brian DePalma's what-was-that "Bonfire of the Vanities."
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  17. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    0
    A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it.
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