Smiley Face (review)
Maybe this is funny if you’re actually stoned. When taken sober, not so much.
Maybe this is funny if you’re actually stoned. When taken sober, not so much.
Genuinely and cheerfully uplifting…
Triumphs over other similar movies with its dedication to authenticity and its refusal to accede to sentimentality…
Even grading on the Implausible Romantic Comedy curve, this trite and nonchalantly indifferent film is forced and so lacking in any kind of romance that it’s a trial to endure…
The nudity is graphic but completely asexual and thoroughly unerotic, and I’m not sure that’s meant to be the point…
Think *Free Willy* meets director Jay Russell’s own *My Dog Skip*…
John Sayles’ latest movie, his 16th, is another wonder of beautifully observant cinema, a sneakily magical immersion in a lost place and time…
Denzel Washington has done it before, so why wouldn’t he do it again?

Just hearing a description of it, you have to think, my god, my god, *yes.* The twisted, separated-at-birth twins Tim Burton and Johnny Depp taking on Stephen Sondheim’s gory opera about a murderous barber? Who else would you give it to?

Do not believe those TV ads that make this look like the goofy romantic lark of the holiday season. This is not a comedy, and it is no lark.