NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

william-tasker-nz There are a lot of good dramatic performances in this film, but sadly they are all wasted since there's no point to the movie that I could discern, no consistent style or character development or anything else you might reasonably expect. It starts with an interviewee who confesses that he involuntarily calls out a ridiculous phrase about political freedom during climax, so you think - OK, it's going to be all-out Python-esque comedy, then nothing else in the movie matches that tone. It seems like a bunch of auditions for different types of movies stitched together, with an after-thought theme tacked on (a woman trying to make sense of her abandonment by a lover). Basically it's self-indulgent film-school pretentiousness masquerading as some sort of deep psychological exploration.

zee This movie may make you want to discuss it afterward with whoever you viewed it with but it never did move me emotionally. A woman interviews a series of men for her academic research and, in between interviews, interacts awkwardly with men in her life. I enjoyed the mystery of it, as I'd not read the book, and that mystery was (for me) what the heck is this woman researcher's field and what's her thesis topic? A number of the men she interviews are a bit hideous but many are not. The most common neurotic symptom the men display is projection, and I grew a bit tired of it, feeling that yes, I'd gotten that, and you can pull out a new device now. At different times in the movie I thought perhaps she was interviewing convicted rapists at a prison (and seeing their attitudes spookily reflected in the men in her quotidian life), or men who had answered an ad regarding sexual dysfunction, or men culled from a dating service or ... well, I wasn't sure, and it was a vaguely pleasant experience puzzling about it. The answer to that mystery is disappointing and bland, by the way, so my musings probably could serve as something of a Rorschach test for me...but as a technique driving the movie (in lieu of narrative drive) it didn't work very well because the payoff was absent.I appreciate a movie that is thoughtful and isn't yet another stupid Hollywood film about crap blowing up and running gun battles, and I'll give it some stars for trying...but in the end, I found it sterile and without significant effect. In a week, I strongly suspect I'll have forgotten it. But thank you, filmmakers, for making something aimed at thinking adults rather than the adolescent/sociopath who loves watching crap blow up for the zillionth time.

michael dye This is an incredibly boring film.The pretentiousness is unparalleled, as other reviewers have said. There isn't anything insightful here, it's just a mismatch of overly-dramatic monologues that don't make a coherent point either individually or in the aggregate.Before I judge Krasinski (the director) for the writing, I should consult the book from which the film was sourced. But such would be too tiresome. Whatever the original text offered this film discards. It also wore me out on Krasinski. I recommend skipping this one and avoiding his other work in the future. He's just not content with the trite, but funny, Jim from The Office. This is one actor / director who wants to reach deeper and will sacrifice coherence to pretend it.

barrosd-1 I have been on IMDb for about 5 years now and have never had the urge to write one of these reviews, until I saw this movie. How this thing has a 6.9 rating on here is beyond me, it's getting a spot in the bottom 20 - the worst movies I've ever seen.Here's the story so you don't have to waste 80 minutes of your life the way I did. A hideous looking red-haired woman (who the other characters inexplicably find attractive) is writing a sort of "paper" on the nature of relationships, specifically looking at how feminism has affected men. To this end, she conducts a series of interviews with a variety of men about their thoughts on women and life in general. Of course, I am taking liberties, because I want my synopsis to make sense, unlike the actual movie.The reality of the movie plays out like a person with MPD that is obsessed with rape and using large words to sound important or intelligent. The movie can't decide if it's about relationships, the dark side of human nature or just monologuing until the end of time. Inside this "gem", you'll find such treasures as a 15 minute diatribe about an African-American man whose father was the server inside a bathroom. There's no rhyme or reason as to why this scene is in there, but the director and writer thought they'd throw it in for kicks.Overall, the real problem I had with this movie (one that anybody with even the slightest bit of sense will also have) is that the director, writer, and actors all think they're SO smart because they can use the word "proclivities" 20 times in the same thought. The climax of the movie's self-indulgence comes at the end, when director Krazinski comes into the movie to deliver a roughly 20 minute monologue about a hippie he meets who tells him an "anecdote" about her experience being raped. I'd like to think I'm an understanding person when it comes to this sort of thing, but I just wanted Gallagher to come from outside the frame and smash Krazinski in the head for all trash that was coming out of his mouth. When a movie ends and you want to yell at the screen for the time lost watching it is when you know that it is a terrible movie.My suggestion? If you're in the market for indie movies, there's about 2,000,000 movies ahead of this stinker.