Answers to Nothing Reviews

Nearly a dozen random themes and characters have been Scotch-taped together into a single mess.

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Reaches rather nakedly for early Paul Thomas Anderson territory, but the copped moves come off less as artful homage and more as the nervous half-formed duplications of a mentee who's left the nest too soon.

Full Review | Original Score: C

An apt title that sadly recalls lesser ensemble pieces like "Playing by Heart," while wanting to be "Grand Canyon."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

With his latest effort 'Answers to Nothing,' co-writer-director Matthew Leutwyler appears to have confused glum with profound.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Some impassioned performances ease the flow of gloom, but it's a long, steady walk to the noose for a picture in dire need of Prozac and some fresh air.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

In the inexplicably titled 'Answers to Nothing,' a film you might inadvertently wander into this weekend if you're unlucky

Full Review | Original Score: D

Any movie that calls itself Answers to Nothing ought to be 100 percent sure it's about something.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

It begins with Dane Cook procuring sperm to impregnate his desperate wife with a little help from his mistress - and goes steadily downhill from there.

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Tasteless and out of touch right down to its foundation, embarrassingly unaware that Crash-like, hyperlink narratives went out with bird-flu paranoia.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

There's a lack of real conclusiveness to many of the film's characters and situations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A Short Cuts full of self-pitying sociopaths, Answers to Nothing follows its characters toward a succession of increasingly queasy conclusions it tries to pass off as heartfelt and human.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

Some fine performances and an embrace of understatement make Matthew Leutwyler's oddly titled "Answers to Nothing" a respectable entry in the multiple-stories-that-interlock genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The trick for a movie with this many loosely connected people is to find the magic or tragedy or thought that arranges them into some kind of galaxy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

An overlong bunch of intertwining stories, none of which is worth the viewer's time.

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Will make you hate words--and these idiots who refuse to stop saying them without actually saying anything at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

Even in the best ensembles, there's always a weak character, someone we're relieved to get away from so that we can get back to the people who interest us. Here, we can't wait to get away from pretty much all of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Answers To Nothing's thinly drawn characters orbit one another like fading satellites until their stories intersect and overlap in arbitrary ways.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

The connections seem less immediate and significant, and so the movie sometimes seems based on a group of separate short stories.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The baleful influence of Paul Haggis's multi-narrative Oscar-winner Crash (2004) continues with Matthew Leutwyler's trite contraption.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The title is an understatement.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5