| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This determinedly nonsensical American indie feels like it was assembled in an off-world quirk factory.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Not quite this year's hip little indie romantic comedy that could, as it clearly aspires to be, but smart-ish and drily funny while overly littered with twitches and tweaks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2009

It's slyly misogynistic, dramatically inert, and wastes an intriguing boorish cameo from John Goodman.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2009

This film is entirely empty: empty of substance, devoid of plausible characters, and without anything like a satisfying style.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Here the characters drive everything - they're quirky without being annoying, funny without being clownish and odd but realistic. As funny and interesting as it is, however, the film raises more question than it answers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2009

The film obviously got a grant from Cool Aid, the endowment fund targeted at US filmmakers with nothing to say but a million airheaded ways to say it.

| Jun 19, 2009

It's kooky, it's quirky, it's dippy, it's trippy, it's loopy, it's screwy - it's indie, and boy, it's annoying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2009

This is some of the worst writing of the year, from the meaningless title down. Oh yeah, and a tramp keeps showing up to beat up Dano throughout. Not quite sure why, but I applaud the effort.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Zooey Deschanel is the most delightful young actress in Hollywood.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2009

It's just not all that interesting to watch two pretty young things go through the muddled rituals of the pas de duh when I can, you know, do it just as poorly myself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 24, 2009

Gigantic plays like a Sundance movie with half the nouns removed; fetchingly cryptic for a while, it's ultimately just obscure.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 23, 2009

One of those indies that seems to be trying to top the quirkiness quotient of Juno.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 20, 2009

Aselton's reason for making this movie is easy to discern -- he wants to be a filmmaker. But coming up with a reason for watching this movie is more of a challenge.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 17, 2009

First-time feature director Matt Aselton, who co-wrote the darkly funny, well-observed script with Adam Nagata, has crafted a disarming tale that's one of the better independent films in recent memory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2009

Anyone can go off and just cynically make a bad movie, but to make a picture as inert, incompetent and emotionally fraudulent as Gigantic takes sincere faith that one is, in fact, making something really, really good.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 10, 2009

Eventually Gigantic decides to become a heartwarmer, and why not? Any ending -- including nuclear devastation or a 1940s musical number -- would have worked, too.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Apr 10, 2009

On the basis of Gigantic, Matt Aselton can make a fine and original film. This isn't quite it, but it has moments so good, all you wish for is a second draft.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2009

Quirk fans, prepare to be lightly exhilarated.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 3, 2009