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To the director's credit, the actors all seem responsive to his touch, giving performances that are lively and flavorsome, if not deep or unlike anything each of them has done before.
Herzfeld has a tolerable eye for filling a 'Scope frame but a tin ear when it comes to creating dialogue; these are all characters we've met before, and most even seem bored with themselves.
A sleek, amusingly nasty screen debut by a film maker whose television credits include an Amy Fisher docudrama.
Funny, pathetic, sad, absurdist -- writer-director John Herzfeld plays it any number of ways, and makes them all work.
There are too many characters, but some are a lot of fun. The tone shifts, from graphic murder to wig-flipping farce, are too extreme, but much of it works.
The plot underlies even the most inexplicable scenes and eventually links even the most widely separated characters, but what makes the movie fun is the dialogue and the behavior.
A sharp, smart movie peppered with A-grade performances from its B-list cast.
It's not that this is a bad, blackly comic slice-of-lowlife: It's just that you've just seen it all before.
A quirky, multi-character collage that skillfully keeps you off balance, not knowing where it's headed.
One constant is its lovely cinematography. Another is its utter insignificance.
Smoothly constructed, for such a busy piece of work, and Hatcher's ascent to stardom continues.
When the highlight of your movie is a catfight between Teri Hatcher and Charlize Theron...well, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it couldve been better
Charlize Theron is super-sexy, and devilishy memorable
an intelligent thriller - a nice surprise
This smart movie never seemed smart.
Closer to straightforward drama than black comedy.
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