
Filth and Wisdom
2008, Drama/Music, 1h 21m
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Filth and Wisdom, while certainly ambitious, is mostly unconvincing and incoherent. Read critic reviews
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A.K.
Holly
Juliette
Professor Flynn
Business Man
Sardeep
Critic Reviews for Filth and Wisdom
All Critics (63) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (47)
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The humour is slight and the directing often perfunctory, with Madonna failing to get more than ordinary performances from her cast.
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November 18, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 -
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November 14, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review… -
This is a terrible, terrible worthless movie that you shouldn't give any time to.
November 10, 2008 -
I'm confident the material girl has more good material for movies ahead of her.
November 10, 2008 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Filth and Wisdom
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Sep 12, 2011Is Madonna's "Filth and Wisdom" as bad as you've heard? Well, I have to say yes. When the film came out, it was savaged by critics and pulled from circulation in just a few days. I suspected the critics were being overly negative, as they are wont to do when a woman artist takes risks. But in this case the extreme pans were deserved. "Filth and Wisdom" is almost as bad as Joaquin Phoenix's spectacularly stupid and self-indulgent "I'm Still Here" (2010). The only redeeming value is that the bits with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of the band Gogol Bordello, do occasionally become interesting. I suspect that Hutz could turn into something of a darling of underground cinema. He would just require a director and writer who's got more going on upstairs than Madonna. I yield to no one in my appreciation for Madonna, but it can't be denied: she's no thinker. And she's not much of a natural behind the camera either. Most of the scenes in "Filth and Wisdom" looked to me like they were directed by an eight-year-old, and not a particularly smart or interesting one.William D Super Reviewer
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Nov 07, 2009I don't see what the point of this was. I love Madonna, but obviously more so in front of the camera than behind.Sarah P Super Reviewer
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A.K.: | in my country there is a saying, if you want to reach the sky, fuck a duck and try to fly. |
A.K.: | In my country there is a saying: if you want to reach the sky, fuck a duck and try to fly. |
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