Filled with cliches.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 16, 2017

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

The film, expertly played by actors who look as if they know exactly what they are talking about, is a bit like a voyeur's view of the Hollywood we only hear about in scandal sheets.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2010

Shrink neatly intertwines the lives of the leading characters in a manner reminiscent of Robert Altman's Short Cuts but without that film's haunting poignancy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2010

A limply-organised multi-story snoozefest from Jonas Pate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2010

Though it dwells on the seamier side of showbiz -- a seedy, pill-popping actor and a slutty casting-couch actress turn up in subplots -- it ultimately buys into the fantasy land it had started out debunking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2010

Blackly funny but never as vicious as it clearly wants to be, this rather nihilistic look at modern society keeps us hooked with desperate and lost characters who all have a whiff of soulful humanity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 3, 2010

Sharp and edgy but with a touching warmth, this satire piques the heart as well as the funny bone.

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

Throw it in the shark tank with Crash, Grand Canyon, Magnolia, etc.

| May 6, 2010

Shrink has fine acting, intriguing characters and moments of humor and pathos, but I left the theater feeling a bit cheated.

| Apr 30, 2010

It's an impressively convoluted piece of writing, but it loses it shine when it becomes clear that neither Moffett nor Pate know where they are going with these stories

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2009

It's another Los Angeles movie that is alternately self-congratulatory and self-pitying...

| Sep 28, 2009

Though a little too interconnected when it comes to narrative coincidences, the emotional intensity laced with deliciously dark humor and nasty neo-screwball wit, outweighs the gimmickry.

| Sep 26, 2009

Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward, and when those sparks emanate from a doobie clutched by Kevin Spacey, a smug critique of the American dream is sure to follow.

| Aug 20, 2009

[The characters'] fates, naturally, intertwine, with a resolution that could only occur in Hollywood.

| Aug 14, 2009

As all of Shrink's seemingly disparate stories begin to fall too cleverly into each other, it's easy to be distracted by some fine performances.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 6, 2009

Spacey is mesmerizing as the "compassion fatigued" Carter. The pain and anger of his character are palpable, as is his heart-wrenching frustration.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 3, 2009

Shrink reminds us why Kevin Spacey matters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2009

...ultimately less successful as a fully-realized drama than as a showcase for its myriad of talented actors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2009