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06/24/06
Caligula (1979)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:7
Rotten:21
Average Rating:3.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A reputedly faithful cinematic depiction of the historical events of Caligula's Rome, including the decadence and debauchery that marked his reign. This notorious release has faced rather... [More]
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren
Director: Tinto Brass
Reviews for Caligula
Top CriticSublimely ridiculous thesp-filled porno-togarama.
04/10/08
Top CriticKinda dumb and tacky, but at least it's a real movie.
03/24/04
Caligula is sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful: People with talent allowed themselves to participate in this travesty.
12/08/07
Top CriticUnpleasantly violent, often dull, and only intermittently sexy.
12/08/07
Top CriticSimply a curiosity, a laughable relic of a failed effort to bring explicit sex movies to the masses.
10/23/07
Hokey doesn't even begin to describe it.
01/01/00
No review available.
10/09/05
No review available.
10/01/05
Plainly sick and grotesque, existing only to shock or nauseate an audience with hideous images, stale performances, lifeless photography, and painfully vile actions.
01/01/00
Excess for excess sake, or just bad taste: Caligula is a messy, bloody film that fails on any level, even as porn and camp.
10/15/07
Not so much the culmination of '70s porn-chic cinema as its purposefully degraded last hurrah
11/16/09
No review available.
03/26/04
professes to be an honest depiction of ancient Roman excesses, but it succeeds only in being alternately boring and offensive
09/15/02
...the film is without any redeeming social value. It's bad history, bad filmmaking, and bad pornography, too.
01/01/00
Despite the movie, the highlight of this three-disc set is the often hilarious commentary.
10/22/07
Caligula turns the Julian dynasty's most violent chapter into a sleazy snoozefest. Even the Penthouse Pets look pained to be decorating this historic bomb.
11/25/04
For sheer camp RBI, this Tinto Brass–Bob Guccione freak is the World Series played, won, and paraded.
01/01/00
On the big screen is the only way one can, ahem, appreciate this gaudy, flat-out bizarre exercise in cinematic fragmentation.
01/01/00
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