This is a terrible, terrible worthless movie that you shouldn’t give any time to.
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11/10/08
Filth and Wisdom (2008)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:7
Rotten:15
Average Rating:4.3/10
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
Top CriticDoes anyone remember when Madonna was considered shocking?
10/31/08
Top CriticAt 84 minutes, the movie feels both overpadded and underdeveloped.
10/31/08
Top CriticNothing in this cynical bit of claptrap feels remotely real.
10/24/08
Top CriticThis is a movie that's just sort of there, and nobody much would have paid any attention to it without the Madonna connection. And chances are nobody much will even with that connection.
10/24/08
Top CriticFor 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
Top CriticMadonna has made a career out of toying with image and ego, but this is a vanity project in the smallest sense possible.
10/24/08
Top CriticMadonna shoots it all like a home movie made by someone who has been on the other side of the camera so often, doing music videos, reality no longer feels remotely real.
10/24/08
Top CriticImpossibly arty and, at times, narratively incoherent, Filth and Wisdom still has its goofy charms.
10/23/08
Top CriticMadonna fans will probably want to go anyway -- hey, I can't stop you -- but I can tell you that the movie delivers on neither of the promises of its title.
10/23/08
Top CriticMadonna, 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
Top CriticThis is a very deeply non-caring movie. I liked Hutz when he sang. I imagine Gene Shalit ate his heart out when he saw Hutz's moustache.
10/23/08
Top CriticI sort of liked it.
10/17/08
Top CriticFilth and Wisdom is pretentious and structurally flawed, never truly coming together as a coherent work.
10/17/08
Top CriticThoroughly inept in just about every aspect.
10/17/08
Top CriticUniformly badly acted down to a loaf of bread, this eye-bleedingly stupid and witless movie is proof that just because someone is considered an icon doesn't mean she should be allowed near movie cameras.
10/17/08
Top CriticPop 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
Top CriticThe movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth.
10/15/08
Top CriticIn 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
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