"Saturday Night Wrist is Deftones' breakaway from their prior success. They have completely reworked their sound since Deftones and have recreated artistic success without replicating their best album. In addition, they gleaned all of the technical innovations that made White Pony so great like Chino's vocals, and applied them to their reformed aesthetic. This album, too, is a classic, minus the unfortunate production decisions in "Pink Cellphone" and the dragging moments I mentioned above. Now, a month or so out of its release, it is really sinking in for me as the genius album it is. If only the public weren't so beaten down from the underwhelming Deftones and expecting White Pony II, maybe they'd go out and help Saturday Night Wrist become the commercial success White Pony was as well."

- Sputnik Music