David Ansen Newsweek Mar 12, 2018

There isn't an ounce of genuine affection on display.

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David Ehrenstein New Times Oct 3, 2017

... shows that there's a lot more to this sordid story than first meets the jaundiced eye.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B

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Matt Kelemen Las Vegas CityLife Mar 30, 2004

Rule No. 1: If you use black humor in a film about real-life characters and events, make sure you have a feel for it first.

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Paul Sherman Boston Herald Feb 2, 2004 1/4

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Feb 2, 2004 3/5

Culkin se esfora, mas no convence como o bissexual Michael Alig. Em contrapartida, Seth Green rouba o filme com sua tima performance.

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Jon Popick Planet S Magazine Jan 22, 2004 5/10

So awful, it's almost good.

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Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Jan 22, 2004 1.5/4

Never has the Manhattan club scene ever looked so tedious; this film makes a powerful argument for staying home and renting a movie.

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Todd Gilchrist FilmStew.com Dec 15, 2003

Perhaps Party Monster's limited distribution will keep this clunker from interrupting Seth Green's rise to the top of the Hollywood food chain.

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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 12, 2003 2/4

It's the drunk-guy- at-the-party syndrome: The only one truly entertained by the clown with the lamp shade on his head is the clown with the lamp shade on his head -- or folks similarly inebriated.

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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle Dec 5, 2003 C-

A mess.

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Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) Dec 5, 2003 1.5/4

Memo to Macaulay Culkin: When your latest cinematic 'comeback' attempt is a film like Party Monster, maybe remaining in career limbo wasn't such a bad idea.

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Sean P. Means Salt Lake Tribune Dec 5, 2003 1.5/4

The look, like Culkin's self-consciously manic performance, is all surface -- which may be the point of profiling these empty lives, but not enough reason to make us watch.

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James Rocchi Netflix Nov 20, 2003 1/5

Fact-based story of drugs and death in "clubland" is boring and banal, failing in its attempt to shock and scandalize.

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Moira MacDonald Seattle Times Nov 14, 2003 1.5/4

We begin the film not knowing what brought Michael and James together. We end, after a too-long 98 minutes, precisely the same way.

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Sean Axmaker Seattle Post-Intelligencer Nov 13, 2003 C+

"... equal parts freakish fashion show and tawdry melodrama of the rise and fall of a superficial celebrity."

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Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Nov 10, 2003 D

As a human document 'Party Monster' is pretty much a disaster...shapeless and sloppy.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Nov 9, 2003 1/5

Like Alig, Party Monster is a colorful mess, all style and substances and little else.

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