Acerbic and hilariously un-PC, Drop Dead Gorgeous stands the test of time as one of the best comedies ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2022

This cult classic is horribly offensive and devastatingly funny. Featuring a stacked cast of powerful female performers and a razor sharp screenplay, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a misunderstood classic that we will never see the likes of again.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2022

While funny at times, it doesn't resonate beyond the gleeful, acidic surface

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2022

The film's jokes progressively rely on a tension between tragedy and optimism.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2021

An acidic, gleefully misanthropic comedy that pulls no punches in its razor-sharp satire of beauty pageant drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2020

Imagine Heathers or Election without their savvy satire or impeccable comic timing and you basically get Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2020

The smile of a beauty queen, the glinting crown and the heaps of flowers, always holds the faint scent of bloodlust, and a whisper of the grave.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2019

In spite of all the predictability, the campy tone of Drop Dead Gorgeous, combined with such fun performances, is what makes it so wonderful.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2018

Too caustic to be as funny as it easily should be with this scenario and in some cases these exact lines of dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 25, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Williams, however, thinks we should be tickled just by the mere mention of cow-tipping, lutefisk and Melissa Manchester. ... Poor people living in trailer parks and wearing polyester -- pretty witty stuff, this.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 27, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Exhibits a lot of attitude but not a whole lot of smarts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

As mean-spirited as movies come!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Drop Dead Gorgeous doesn't drop dead, but the gags often arrive like planks hitting our heads.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

In this movie you can literally spot the seam where it crosses the line from the really good section to the completely botched one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000