| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2006

Pritikin may be asking his audience to pay attention and embrace small successes, but with Dummy, he has pulled off a great one.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Dec 9, 2004

Pritikin's movie succeeds...thanks to its spirited, oddball humor and winning performances

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2004

Like its mini-mouthpiece, as pleasantly entertaining as Dummy often is, this ultimately hollow film sounds a few too many wooden notes and creaky jokes.

Full Review | Jan 29, 2004

Set at an odd pitch, one best described as shrill.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2003

The characters are all strangely endearing, and the real pleasure of the movie is just watching them interact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2003

Definitely lives down to its name -- you can see the lips moving on this wooden thing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2003

Surprisingly endearing in moments thanks to finely tuned comic performances, especially from Brody.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 15, 2003

[T]he best ventriloquist -stalker -family-drama -romantic -comedy I've seen in, well maybe forever.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2003

Dummy might have been a better movie if Greg Pritikin had done a few more rewrites on his script, and if he'd had more than a few weeks in which to shoot it.

| Sep 13, 2003

It's a sweetly sad and sadly funny tale, conceived with quirky sensitivity, but, though its actors are adept, it only just hangs together, like a sitcom still in rehearsal stages.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 12, 2003

It's repetitive and obvious but somehow endearing, like a truly ugly dog with sweet eyes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 12, 2003

Pritikin's shrewd comedy-drama catches a fine flock of family emotions on the wing, and not the over-exposed ones.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2003

What could have been a biting dark comedy is, instead, uninspired and generic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 12, 2003

Brody is a real talent, and Illeana Douglas is a riot as his older sister.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 12, 2003

The result is the kind of oddball independent film that's almost a parody of the genre.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 11, 2003

A mildly engaging addition to that curious sub-genre of American independent filmmaking, the whimsical comedy of Long Island alienation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2003

A romantic comedy of considerable charm and humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2003

Adrien Brody rescues Greg Pritikin's self-consciously eccentric comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2003