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

| Oct 31, 2012

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

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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2010

The movie bubbles with intellectual curiosity and narrative ambition. And for that I dig it, even if Leaves of Grass has the habit of swerving and sometimes lurching from tone to tone.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 31, 2010

It's just another oblique backfire from Tim Blake Nelson, whose work as a writer-director in general wallows in a bog of mediocrity.

| Mar 31, 2010

It would be overly polite to call this a pale shadow of the tone-shifting Coen brothers farces from which Nelson - who costarred in O Brother, Where Art Thou? - is taking his cues.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 31, 2010

Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass is some kind of sweet, wacky masterpiece. It takes all sorts of risks, including a dual role with Edward Norton playing twin brothers, and it pulls them off.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 29, 2010

Messy genre jumbling has rhyme and reason in Leaves of Grass, as it speaks directly to the film's portrait of life's unpredictability and uncontrollability.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2010

The movie is a showcase for digital technology and for Norton's virtuosity, but I wish it weren't such a weightless shambles.

| Mar 29, 2010

Leaves of Grass is part goofy drug comedy, part shocking bloodbath. It's a riot of tones and genres, but unlike that other recent hybrid, Pineapple Express, the parts add up to something larger.

| Mar 29, 2010

An identical twins comic crime drama goes seriously wrong.

Full Review | Sep 18, 2009

One Edward Norton performance is often enough reason to see a movie, so it comes as no surprise that the prospect of two -- he plays twins -- is very much the main attraction, and reward, of Leaves of Grass.

| Sep 18, 2009