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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannA blast of manic energy in the form of a film.
- The Acid House comes across as a shadow of "Trainspotting," albeit a vibrant, noisy, frantic shadow.
- 70VarietyVarietyThe Acid House makes "Trainspotting" look like a mild-mannered youth comedy.
- 70Los Angeles TimesJohn AndersonLos Angeles TimesJohn AndersonA virulent but thoroughly entertaining trilogy of tales about the besieged lower classes of Edinburgh, ripe with vulgarity, self-loathing, violence and economic disorder.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThere are flashes of excitement in this film, mostly from the verbal play and sulphurous humour of Welsh's perspective, but there's a lot that makes you wonder why you're sitting through it.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenWith a cackling nihilistic glee, the movie rubs our faces in the stinking, screaming muck of raw human appetite and insists that that's all there is.
- 60Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterThere's so little leavening humor here, and so much physical and emotional violence visited upon the already abject, that the film seems as pointless as the wasted lives it purports to examine.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakSeattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakIt's not the direction that feels flaccid in this film. Surprisingly, it's the stories themselves, which provide a bit of a giggle but little else.
- 50L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmSympathy is disturbingly cast aside so we can wallow in the pathetic. It’s a bad trip, man.
- 40Film ThreatRon WellsFilm ThreatRon WellsOver all, the short stories never gel together or create a unified whole.