I sort of liked it.
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10/17/08
Filth and Wisdom (2008)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:15
Rotten:39
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Filth and Wisdom, while certainly ambitious, is mostly unconvincing and incoherent.
Theatrical Release:Oct 17, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Madonna's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, is a hilariously sexy tale of three roommates who must delve into mischievous and naughty behavior in pursuit of bigger and brighter futures. A... [More]
Starring: Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E. Grant
Director: Madonna
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Reviews for Filth and Wisdom
Top CriticI'm confident the material girl has more good material for movies ahead of her.
11/10/08
A grungy ensemble piece that casts a fascinating spell despite its many shortcomings, Madonna's directorial debut Filth and Wisdom is equal parts naughty and nice (or filthy and wise, as the title would have it).
03/01/08
Scraggly and aimless, a little cartoonish but highly personable.
10/11/08
Despite its many shortcomings and an ending so mushy and neat it would embarrass Richard Curtis, Madonna has done herself proud.
10/18/08
Madonna, making her directorial debut, aims for the romping irreverence of Richard Lester's 60s comedies, and though she lacks the formal control to pull it off, this is a charming mess.
10/23/08
Madonna's feature directorial debut Filth and Wisdom seems of a piece with her previous work, in that it's in some way about Madonna herself hiding behind borrowed aesthetics.
10/13/08
The Material Girl goes behind the camera. With not bad results.
10/08/08
Pop go the dialectics in Filth and Wisdom, a tale of bumping and grinding your way to happiness from the hardest-working hard body in show business.
10/17/08
For an artist who has spent so much of her career reinventing herself to lead pop culture, not to mention fatten her pocketbook, Madonna seems at her most sincere behind this camera. She coaxes genuine moments from the three principals.
10/24/08
[The film's] finest attribute is its scraggly, empathetic portrait of close-knit Londoners trying to make a go of things in haphazard, messy, always true-to-themselves ways.
10/15/08
Ragged, uneven and potholed with some dire dialogue and performances, the film's cockeyed optimism and likable leads conspire to bring a smile by the time it's done.
02/13/08
Message to the director: Don’t quit your day job just yet, but in the category of multidisciplinary artists moonlighting as filmmakers, I’ll take you over Julian Schnabel any day.
10/30/08
Madonna's got her Godard down!
10/12/08
Impossibly arty and, at times, narratively incoherent, Filth and Wisdom still has its goofy charms.
10/23/08
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11/14/08
Curiosity-seekers may trickle in, but despite the deliberate move to release the flick unrated, there's nothing in here to merit a raised eyebrow.
10/28/08
In technical terms, more professional productions than this are filmed and cut on iMovie, by ten-year-olds, a thousand times a day.
10/13/08
At 83 minutes, it's tedious, pretentious, and just plain boring. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing does.
10/27/08
This is a terrible, terrible worthless movie that you shouldn’t give any time to.
11/10/08
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