With its constant genre-morphing subplots, psychotic characters, and unordered narrative, it will keep audiences guessing all the way through.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: C- | May 6, 2011

The writing is hopelessly obtuse, and it seems that the writer was just trying to pull a fast one on the audience.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 11, 2010

Smug and glib and generally apathetic as to who gets what in the end, so long as it seems clever at the time.

| Dec 17, 2009

Rickman's a professorial womanizer who's not above turning a "C" student's grade to "A" if she looks like City Hall (Eliza Dushku) and puts out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 3, 2009

I have no idea how all the scenes in this movie connect. But I loved watching it unfold.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 20, 2008

You want to see how it plays out, but it's just frustrating to wade through all the "style" to get there.

| Dec 12, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2008

Its 110 minutes are a totally disposable piece of fluff, but perhaps more importantly, also a whole lot of fun.

| Original Score: 68/100 | Dec 10, 2008

Never feels like anything more than an ber-nerd desperately trying to be cool -- like watching Jon Heder pretending to be James Bond.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 10, 2008

The screenplay starts out clever enough, but devolves into a ridiculous mishmash of incoherent subplots.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2008

Director Miller employs high-octane music and the technique of high speed filming for certain sequences, which I suppose is a blessing since they shorten the running time.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2008

Is it a thriller? Is it a heist movie? Is it a comedy?

| Dec 8, 2008

I had high hopes for Nobel Son at the halfway point, but it ultimately really completely collapses under the weight of its clever twists.

Full Review | Dec 8, 2008

It's one of those perfect-crime kinda flicks, wrapped up in familial angst as a black-comedy topping. That it's all rather ridiculous and overly complicates itself in the process is almost beside the point...

| Dec 7, 2008

Gets more and more convoluted and preposterous as it goes along, and far less fun...a movie that, despite the title, will win no prizes.

| Original Score: D | Dec 7, 2008

An undignified mess that should embarrass Rickman and everyone else involved.

| Dec 6, 2008

It's the sort of movie where calling it 'over the top' can only be taken as a compliment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2008