Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

New York Post Lou Lumenick

You might not want to watch all of "The ABC of Love and Sex Australian Style," "Turkey Shoot" or "The True Story of Eskimo Nell," but the clips on view in "Not Quite Hollywood" are a hoot.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Think of Not Quite Hollywood as a vividly illustrated catalogue of astonishing smut.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

A survey of the week wouldn't be complete without a left-handed salute--not to be confused with a backhanded compliment--to the gleeful rubbish of Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

Washington Post Desson Thomson

All in all, this is a celebration of Australian exuberance, a national ethic of adventurousness and enormous charisma.

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

It's a kicky, slightly exhausting look at a bygone era of low-rent moviemaking, whose colorful trove of film clips should delight fans of cinematic esoterica, nostalgic schlock and high octane drive-in fare.

Film Threat Matthew Sorrento

Plays like a fever dream that won't quit until you lose consciousness or your lunch, whichever goes first.

Variety Dennis Harvey

Aussie genre pics of the 1970s and '80s get a rip-roaring salute in Not Quite Hollywood, complete with endorsement by Quentin Tarantino as chief onscreen fanboy.

Village Voice Scott Foundas

The rise of video and the death of the drive-ins would eventually bring the curtain down on the Aussie schlock industry, but for two glorious hours, Not Quite Hollywood returns us to a time when the price of admission was cheap and the thrills even cheaper.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams

Of course, there's a kind of reverse snobbery in touting cheap movies over polished ones. But if Not Quite Hollywood is not quite convincing, it is quite entertaining.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

It's all very foul, and completely entertaining.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

It’s as slickly enjoyable as anything you’d see on VH1.

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

An affectionate, rollicking guide to the drive-in classics of Australian filmmaking from the 1970s and ’80s.

The Hollywood Reporter Megan Lehmann

Beyond mere titillation -- and some good-natured laughs at the expense of genre cliches -- Not Quite Hollywood has a sociological edge.

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

Although Not Quite Hollywood was clearly put together with fanatical love, the suspicion remains, as often with genre cinema, that these trash-rich movies are a lot more fun to hear about, and to watch in snatches, than to sit through.

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

What's cool and always kicky is seeing a country's irreverent movie trash being treated with such, well, reverence.