Robert Denerstein Scripps Howard News Service Jun 29, 2026 1/4

This could be the least amount of fun you can have without clothes.

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Gary Wolcott Tri-City Herald Dec 18, 2024 1/5

A convoluted comedy that gets very few laughs.

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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Jun 13, 2021 3/5

'...a better than average crime-thriller with some salty characters and a propulsive, scabrous plot....

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) Oct 19, 2020 1.5/5

Slack stuff.

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Chris Peachment Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 28, 2017

I don't know if the lawyers are currently scanning the contracts for Striptease in order to find out what went wrong in the small print, but someone got badly conned; and that someone is mostly the audience.

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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal Jun 18, 2014

Yet another case of the star's salary being much more interesting, and exuberantly vulgar, than anything the screen reveals.

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Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune Jun 18, 2014 1/4

The Striptease script... is at a loss for any kind of drama between Moore's dances. Not for a second do we care about her as a mother, wife or working woman.

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Rita Kempley Washington Post Jun 18, 2014

The film's premise is thinner than the heroine's G-string.

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Jeff Shannon Seattle Times Jun 18, 2014 2.5/4

Bergman, who made The Freshman and Honeymoon in Vegas, provides quotable one-liners for everyone (especially Rhames), and a bevy of strippers lend colorful albeit stereotypically ditzy support.

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Desmond Ryan Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 18, 2014 2.5/4

Men will doubtless be lured to Striptease by Moore's beautifully sculpted body. But it's the heart she puts into Erin that gives this more erratic than erotic picture the centering presence it needs.

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Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel Jun 18, 2014

If you get stuck at Striptease, my advice is to relax and try to enjoy its occasional pleasures.

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Richard Schickel TIME Magazine Jun 18, 2014

Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents [Moore] as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter--can't afford to waste time there, given the amount of busy work he has to.

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Mark Caro Chicago Tribune Jun 18, 2014 2/4

The result is a perversely odd concoction: a comedy that has fun with everything but stripping -- which, post-Showgirls, would seem to wear the biggest bull's-eye.

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Gary Susman Boston Phoenix Jun 18, 2014

Striptease is not a disaster like that other expensive ecdysiast extravaganza, Showgirls, though if it were, it might at least have some redeeming camp awfulness to enliven its otherwise dull mediocrity.

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Dennis King Tulsa World Jun 18, 2014 2/4

For all its matter-of-fact nudity and wealth of silicon-heavy exotic dancers, the film lacks any palpable sense of eroticism.

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Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune Jun 18, 2014 1/5

Striptease stinks. Yes, that's a crude, perhaps even rude, assessment. But crude and rude are the two terms that sum up this alleged comedy.

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Chris Kridler Baltimore Sun Jun 18, 2014 2.5/4

Although the movie is a bit too long, oddball humor and a likable cast keep it entertaining.

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Leah Rozen People Magazine Jun 18, 2014

Striptease is an amiable comedy with ambitions to be a satire, but its thriller plot keeps getting in the way of the yucks.

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David Ansen Newsweek Jun 18, 2014

This may sound like a suspense movie, but it's not. There's no mystery (we know who the bad guys are) and the damsel-in-distress angle generates zero tension.

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Robin Karney Radio Times Jun 18, 2014 2/5

Andrew Bergman's direction makes it watchable, but his screenplay pulls its punches on the sleaze, and tear-jerking sentimentality and inadequate humour don't combine well with the drama.

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