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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyTy BurrEntertainment WeeklyTy BurrPaul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy.
- 90Time OutTime OutThe most delicious blackly comic collision of sex, food and murder, Bartel's film arrives as a delightful surprise from the former court jester of Roger Corman's exploitation stable.
- 88Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierSlant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierA delirious rejoinder to the post-sexual revolution counter-culture wars, director Paul Bartel’s script crosses the let’s-get-down-to-social-brass-tacks satire of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which was respectfully vindictive of Los Angeles’s middle-class hedonism, with the straight-faced über-misanthropy of Kind Hearts and Coronets.
- 83The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsDespite the casual homicide and a premise rich with Reagan-era political undertones, the gleeful satire draws inspiration as much from Bugs Bunny as Luis Buñuel.
- 80The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyIt is full of smiles, punctuated here and there by marvelously unseemly guffaws, but most of the time it works its little wonders quietly.
- 80EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanIt shouldn't work, but it does.
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatAn endearing view of a past time and filmmaking style – think Corman with a heart – Eating Raoul offers a bare Woronov, a prime slice of sexy-ugly that can never be duplicated, just like this film.
- 60TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA terrifically droll satire on both horror movies and American middle-class values. Despite the subject matter, our hero and heroine emerge as genuinely sympathetic characters, which ultimately makes one wonder where the film's true sympathies lie.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertProblem is, it's so laid-back it eventually gets monotonous. If the style and pacing had been as outrageous as the subject matter, we might have had something really amazing here.