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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Has an air of detachment and sadness, enhanced by the movie's being set a full quarter century ago. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    If The Informers doesn't sound to you like a pleasant time at the movies, you are right. To repeat: dread, despair and doom. It is often however repulsively fascinating and has been directed by Gregor Jordan as a soap opera from hell, with good sets and costumes. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety |

    The film is banal by obvious intent. The only question, as with other Ellis adaptations including "American Psycho," is whether auds will appreciate the aggressively shallow depiction of an aggressively shallow milieu, or mistake the pic's implicit critique for the crime itself. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    One long wallow in sordidness. Read full review

  • 25
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Shocking is the fact that three highly regarded actors -- Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke and Billy Bob Thornton -- chose to star in this dreadful film. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    You come away with only the memory of Christie, the film's perfect California blonde, lying insensate on the beach in the final ravages of AIDS - a potent and frightening image the rest of The Informers can't live up to. Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Nearly every time Mr. Jordan, working from a script by Mr. Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki, tries for similar effects, he goes badly awry, so that you snicker when the movie is trying to be poignant and groan when it aims to make a joke. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post |

    A nihilistic, narcissistic, knuckleheaded move about nihilistic, narcissistic knuckleheads, The Informers might have been an interesting exercise in satire, if it only had a sense of humor. Which it doesn't. You'll need one, though, after forking over 10 bucks to see it. Read full review

  • 10
    Los Angeles Times |

    Conjures up plenty of debauched tableaux with its photogenic, jaded showbiz denizens and hangers-on, but nary a reason for existing. Read full review

  • 0
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    One of the worst movies of this or any year. Read full review

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