We’ve gotta be completely honest here and tell you that the last movie we hated so much we couldn’t finish watching it was John Waters’ Pecker, which was just plain lazy. But Hairspray aside, a Waters movie can’t be expected to be “good” in any traditional storytelling sense. He’s probably never going back to the over-the-top grossouts of his early work, but the pencil-’stached favorite son of Baltimore still revels in gleeful mockery of straight-laced suburban norms. And for Dirty Shame, he’s found a lead actress—Tracey Ullman—who not only has a simpatico mindset, but can actually act. 612-925-6006, www.landmarktheatres.com
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