Leigh and Cumming prove to be adept writers and, like many actors-turned-directors, are excellent at eliciting fine performances from their fellow thespians.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2002

Too formlessly turgid.

| Jul 27, 2001

The best thing that one can say about The Anniversary Party is that it raises more questions about its central characters than it can possibly answer -- which may weaken it as a drama but not as a search for truth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2001

The result is something like being stuck at an audition for someone else's play, which you haven't read, won't invest in, and don't care too much about.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2001

What distinguishes The Anniversary Party from the movies/lives that inspired it is the dead-on quality of much of the writing and acting.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

If digital looks like this and makes it possible for such funny and intimate chamber pieces to come into existence, then bring on the digital movies.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 22, 2001

The film has a marvelous cast, and everyone is in fine form.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

Never less than entertaining and often much, much more.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

A textbook example of why actors sometimes should just act.

| Jun 22, 2001

A cool and intelligent look at a lifestyle where smart people are required to lead their lives according to dumb rules.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2001

Isn't what you'd call a probing film, but it's a slick and savvy one.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

Smart and edgy.

| Jun 21, 2001

A classic guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2001

Has a loose, improvisatory feel that rings true.

Full Review | Jun 21, 2001

Badly organized and self-indulgent.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2001

I had a hard time maintaining interest in (let along liking) any of these self-involved Hollywood twerps.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2001

They turn what could have been an acting stunt into an intimate and compelling study of bruised emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 12, 2001