Editing Nuns on the Run (section)

==Reception==
The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was criticised in the [[United States]] for its lack of depth and excessive use of nuns for humour. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a 42% rating based on reviews from 26 critics, with an average rating of 4.6/10.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nuns on the Run |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nuns_on_the_run |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=2022-11-04 }}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] asked, "Why do filmmakers so often insist that nuns are funny? I'll bet there are some psychological reasons buried around here somewhere."<ref>{{cite news |date=March 16, 1990 |author=Roger Ebert |author-link= Roger Ebert |title= Nuns on the Run |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |via=RogerEbert.com |url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nuns-on-the-run-1990 |access-date=30 September 2021 }}</ref> Ebert and [[Gene Siskel]] had also ridiculed Fox's advertising campaign for the film; in retaliation, Fox's president of marketing, [[Bob Harper (producer)|Bob Harper]], announced that they would be barred from press screenings of future films released by the company, though he backed down after only three weeks under pressure from the [[Chicago Film Critics Association]] (of which neither Siskel nor Ebert was a member).<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/about/54 | title = Chicago's Critics in the Fox hole | date = 26 January 2008 | access-date = 3 November 2014 | publisher = [[Chicago Film Critics Association]] | first = Dann | last = Gire }}</ref> Michael Wilmington of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' noted that as far as drag comedies go, the film "has some bawdy class—but only because of its casting".<ref>{{cite news |author= Michael Wilmington |title= Movie Review : 'Nuns on the Run': A Comedic and Risque Change of Habit |newspaper= [[Los Angeles Times]] |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-16-ca-116-story.html |access-date= 2012-06-05 |archive-date= 4 December 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131204033145/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-16/entertainment/ca-116_1_nun-run-movie |url-status= live }}</ref>

[[Vincent Canby]] wrote in ''[[The New York Times]]'' that "''Nuns on the Run'' is a great leveler. It makes everyone in the audience feel a rascally 8 years old, the age at which [[whoopee cushion]]s (when they work) seem the greatest invention since firecrackers."<ref>{{cite news |date=1990-03-16 |author=Vincent Canby |author-link= Vincent Canby |title= Review/Film;Hoods With a Habit, in 'Nuns on the Run'|newspaper= [[The New York Times]]|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/16/movies/review-film-hoods-with-a-habit-in-nuns-on-the-run.html |access-date=2022-04-01 }}</ref> [[Owen Gleiberman]] wrote in one of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'s}} first issues that the film "isn't a madcap-hysterical, end-of-the-empire [[Drag queen|drag]] farce; it doesn't hash over what [[Monty Python]] did definitively over 20 years ago. It's a cleverly directed caper comedy about two crooks on the lam, and it has its fair share of chuckles."<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Owen Glieberman |author-link=Owen Gleiberman |title=Nuns on the Run |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20266232,00.html |access-date=5 June 2012 |archive-date=23 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623234300/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20266232,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Box office===

The film was successful in the US on limited release, making $658,835 in its first screenings at 76 theatres.<ref>{{cite news|title= Weekend Box Office : 'Red October' Doing Fine in March |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=20 March 1990 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-20-ca-469-story.html |first=Pat H.|last=Broeske|access-date=14 May 2019}}</ref> ''Nuns on the Run'' grossed US$10,959,015, according to [[Box Office Mojo]].

It made £3.2 million at the UK box office.<ref name="org">{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-back-to-the-future-the-fall-and-rise-of-the-british-film-industry-in-the-1980s.pdf|page=27|title=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing|website=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</ref>