Delirious Reviews
It is more than a rom-com and more than a buddy film. It is definitely a film that stands on its own.
| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 7, 2020
DiCillo's extended cut of Delirious holds up a microscope to the celebrity circus that still carries on. He dissects egos as fragile as glass and the pettiness that comes with fame.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2020
Delirious sizzles as long as it loiters in the R. Crumb universe of geeky losers who keep their homicidal urges at least barely in check.
| May 26, 2020
Delirious is definitive DiCillo: goofy and cartoonish at the edges, at times a little obvious in its caricature of our celebrity-obsessed culture, but humble and funny enough to compel viewers to overlook its flaws.
| Jan 30, 2020
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011
Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt are easily the best odd couple the movies have seen since Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
| Mar 15, 2009
Leaves us with the same old familiar and empty Hollywood storyline on the world of celebrity culture.
| Original Score: B- | Jan 23, 2009
It's not as sharp as his indie gems from the mid-1990s, but the thing's packed with bright performances and unique characters, which is what DiCillo does best.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2008
The film isn't as broadly funny as the previous DiCillo-Buscemi collaboration Living in Oblivion, but its outsiders peering in have an uncomfortable resonance.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 5, 2008
Underwritten and overplayed, it is one that not even Buscemi fans will treasure.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2008
DiCillo's themes are loyalty and friendship and betrayal and redemption.
| Dec 13, 2007
DiCillo hasn't lost his gift for artfully skewering both those basking in fame's spotlight and those lurking in the shadows, while still finding a measure of affection for all of them.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2007
A victim of its own vitriol.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 1, 2007
This satirical comedy is a connoisseur's delight, with Steve Buscemi in top form as the runt of a paparazzo who tries to exploit a homeless young man.
| Oct 27, 2007
Mature paparazzi drama isn't quite in focus.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2007
As always, Buscemi masters his portrayal of needy desperation, but he still makes Les admirable for his capacity to go with the flow.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2007
DiCillo is ultimately grounded in the eccentric, awkward relationship
| Original Score: B | Oct 4, 2007
I just wish you'd get the chance to see it in a theater like I did, because if more people took the time to do so then maybe we might actually get more intelligently crafted relationship comedies like it.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2007
With Delirious, writer-director Tom DiCillo has crafted a wonderfully giddy meditation on the nature of fame, the people who sell it and those doing the buying, and their mutually parasitic dependence on each other.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2007