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Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenUnfortunately, for a number of reasons, the movie does not work, though it's difficult to sort out the “what is” from the “what was” and “what might have been.”
- 40Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumWhile the results are both cheerful and occasionally inventive, they can't hold a candle to his previous features; too many jokey asides and cameos - not to mention an overdose of plot - keep getting in the way.
- 40VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungPic stays on the surface, without attempting any exploration of painful depths. Result is at best amusing; at worst, uninvolving, often confusing, and sometimes a little boring.
- 38TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineNo one seems to be having any fun, including the normally masterful Van Sant, whose direction is unstructured, confusing, and lackadaisical.
- 30The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinOne of the many problems with Gus Van Sant's tortured, worked-over Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is that Sissy Hankshaw talks like a novel, and a dated one at that.
- 20EmpireEmpireVan Sant's film is cold and the gallery of eccentrics merely come across as vulgar caricatures.
- 12Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEven Cowgirls Get the Blues is one of the more empty, pointless, baffling films I can remember, and the experience of viewing it is an exercise in nothingness.
- 12ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliEven Cowgirls is as close to an unwatchable film as there is available at this time in the theaters.
- 10Washington PostWashington PostSaddled with leaden lead performances, hobbled by an arch, incoherent script and pokey pacing, the new, improved Cowgirls is a miscarriage - misconceived, miscast, miserably boring.
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanCowgirls, a flaky-surreal adaptation of Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist hipster road novel, finds the director of "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho" lost in the ozone of his own private whimsies.