The director guides a bizarre plot through completely ordinary settings and produces, in addition to the captivating anticipation of the shocking twists, a dose of absorbing film entertainment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 17, 2023

Just as the layered title suggests, there’s something clever behind the picture that engages both the intellectual viewer and the viewer searching for raw entertainment value.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 3, 2023

really unbalanced

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2014

I could only bear 35 minutes, and I haven't walked out of anything since 'You, Me and Dupree.'

| Oct 31, 2012

Maybe too small-scale to be anything truly special, but an original and witty film that both surprises and entertains.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2011

Essentially Deliverance cross-bred with A History of Violence...Leaves of Grass is a peculiar rural yarn and a sweet, assured examination of lost innocence and brotherhood that succeeds largely because of Norton's multi-faceted performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2011

This is a very personal film from Nelson that is jam packed with ideas and heavily influenced by the Coen Brothers...

| Original Score: B | Oct 10, 2010

The DVD extras give the film a boost with a well done "making-of" featurette and a commentary of the film by director Nelson, star Norton and producer William Migliore.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 10, 2010

An offbeat thriller that is deepened -- rather than derailed -- by its tricky shift from darkly funny to just plain dark.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2010

It's a jarringly realistic hybrid that echoes the more surreal aspects of real, rural life, and Norton walks/ambles through it all, sporting dueling personalities and distinct accents, but one very serious heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 24, 2010

Many clichés in uneven and odd mix of guffaws and philosophical analysis. . .[C]onsiderable violence surprisingly erupts...[M]ost fun is watching Norton interact with Norton.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 23, 2010

Suffice to say that Blake Nelson doesn't have the visual gifts of his Minnesotan mentors, leaving us undistracted by surface flair and fully focused on his cartoonish characters and ragged, oddly callow script.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 22, 2010

... through it all, the two performances by Edward Norton feel natural, relaxed, utterly unlike a gimmick.

| Sep 20, 2010

This is Tim Blake Nelson's affectionate and curious vision of his native Oklahoma, and what he sees makes for a uniquely restless, ribald motion picture.

Full Review | Sep 17, 2010

The mirror image gag is one of the oldest in the book, and yet, if done well, it never really gets old.

| Sep 17, 2010

As a writer-director, Nelson keeps the laughs coming at a steady pace, and never condescends to his articulate redneck characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2010

Mr. Norton is a pleasure to watch, and so is everyone else.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 2010

Emerging director Tim Blake Nelson takes another step up with this comedy drama starring Edward Norton in what might go down as Norton's best performance yet.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 9, 2010

It's not the violence itself that bothers me, it's just that it completely destroys the tone of the movie.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2010

You could get whiplash from his movie's mood swings.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2010