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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakIts characters are unforgettably batty yet impressively noble...sympathetic yet fierce.... And their actions consistently achieve dramatic merit despite always culminating with a joke.
- 70We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoLowlife is a dirt-nasty nonlinear debut for Ryan Prows, sewn together from vengeful, spite-driven tales of urban survival.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeBracing and well paced, it may occasionally stretch too far for an attention-getting quirk, but Lowlife feels fresher than it has any right to be, given its ingredients.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyProws and company don’t simply play the often outrageous (and occasionally grisly) content for tasteless sensationalism, comic or otherwise. They treat it with an interesting, empathic yet slightly detached tone somewhere between the respectful and the droll.
- Lowlife is also far more bloodstained than Tarantino’s normal fare. Grisly isn’t the word: The entire effects and makeup team work overtime for some of the most splattertastic effects in any non-horror film since the bone-shattering, skull-squishing glories of "Brawl on Cell Block 99."
- 60Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe tangled plot is ultimately too simple, and the film's sociopolitical commentary too paltry. But Lowlife does have a refreshingly varied and up-to-date cast of characters. With seedy B-movies, just a little bit of ambition elevates the generic.