Trash Humpers
Metascore
33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 11
  3. Negative: 3 out of 11
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    70
    While the results were probably never designed to win over his detractors, Trash Humpers is almost a perverted love letter to fans of his brand of unstable, fringe-y terror.
  2. Movieline
    Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    55
    Defiantly unwatchable if occasionally transfixing, the film is essentially the home movies of three marauding burnouts.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    50
    Trash Humpers projects a cranky resignation to the world as it is; still, it's picturesque.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Rob Nelson
    50
    Pity the festival-going fool who stumbles unawares into Harmony Korine's patently abrasive, deliberately cruddy-looking mock-documentary Trash Humpers. All others -- that is, those familiar with Korine's anti-bourgeois oeuvre and know what they're in for -- will have a glorious time.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Peter Brunette
    40
    Not for the faint of heart or for those who like their films to have beginnings, middles, and ends.
  6. Empire
    Reviewed by: Philip Wilding
    40
    A often grim vaudeville parade of Nashville's oddballs and ne'er-do-wells.
  7. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    40
    If this is what passes for contemporary art terrorism, we’ll opt instead for something truly subversive--like genuine art
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    40
    Idolized in some quarters and reviled in others, Mr. Korine, now 37, may be a bit long in the tooth for the enfant terrible act.
  9. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    25
    In Trash Humpers, the latest slovenly, haphazard, is-it-a-travesty-if-it's-bad-on-purpose avant doodle from director Harmony Korine, three figures in rubbery old-age makeup do indeed mimic intercourse with Dumpsters.
  10. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    25
    With every project, he pops open the same trunkload of shtick and leaves everyone to argue over whether it’s art. It’s a win-win situation for Korine, who’s either a genius or a provocateur who’s succeeded in gaming his stuffy critics.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    0
    A mind-numbing piece of would-be provocation from the button-pushing Harmony Korine, Trash Humpers gets no stars from me -- not because it's offensive and disgusting like his earlier "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey-Boy," but because it's about as enervating a way to waste 78 minutes as I've ever experienced.

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User Score
7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. HarsH
    10
    I did not choose to live in a world in which Trash Humpers metascores 51 points lower than Avatar... but there it is.
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