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

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

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

Full Review | Sep 15, 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

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

Brody shot this film pre-Pianist and performed all the puppetry and ventriloquism himself, and it's pretty impressive watching the Oscar-winning actor externalize his expressions on the dummy's face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2003

Brody ... is the movie's weakest link, turning in a performance almost as wooden as the doll that sits on his knee.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2003

Pritikin ... serves up the sort of shrill 'satire' of middle-class Jewish vulgarity in which the mere mention of words like 'brisket' and 'klezmer' is automatically presumed to be hilarious.

| Original Score: D- | Sep 10, 2003

Walter and Douglas stand out in particular.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2003

It's no surprise that Brody, Douglas, Walter and Leibman make for one highly entertaining, if messed up, family unit, but the big revelation here is Jovovich.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2003