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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIf 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.
- 58The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThough The Informers is by no means great--nor wholly true to the vision of Ellis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Jarecki--moments sprinkled throughout the film capture Ellis' particular mix of flip yuppie satire and lived-in paranoia better than any big-screen version of his work to date.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterOne long wallow in sordidness.
- 50VarietyVarietyThe 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.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe Informers is nihilism for nihilism's sake; a bleak and borderline-unwatchable collage of misanthropes, self-absorbed a**holes, and pathetic weaklings as they struggle to move forward during the early 1980s in Los Angeles.
- 38Charlotte ObserverCharlotte ObserverIt's a terrible muddle unless you take it as a satire on the Age of Ellis, the Jacqueline Susann for that Flock of Seagulls era. That way, the unintentional laughs seem almost ironic.
- 38Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaAnother tale of Tinseltown drugs, sex and excess - has transferred itself to the screen with mind-boggling, laugh-inciting horribleness.
- 25Miami HeraldConnie OgleMiami HeraldConnie OgleHere's what is bad: this movie.
- 25Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrYou 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.
- 20Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA tale of absolute self-absorption and unconscious revelation.