| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This one has nothing extraordinary about it to compensate for seven years' staleness.

| Dec 1, 2008

A movie that makes a good initial public offering.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

If you want to see ignorant self destruction, see Troy Duffy in "Overnight" and forget this film---the worst mistake Josh Hartnett has made in his career.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 27, 2008

While this modest indie offers high-tension plotting, it's real substance is the contrast between Hartnett's charismatic, hard-charging business persona and his intimacy-challenged real-life relationships.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2008

Anyone who thinks that Josh Hartnett isn't a true movie star should see his riveting, high-wire performance in August, a shrewdly dramatized look back at the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 16, 2008

Smartly scripted, convincingly atmospheric morality fable in which Hartnett, usually insubstantial as a good guy, plays a convincingly flawed character galloping toward the precipice.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2008

...the picture ... provides Josh Hartnett with one of his most interesting roles, and it elicits one of his sharpest performances.

| Jul 14, 2008

This stylish, well acted drama chronicles one once-successful dot-com's efforts to stay afloat in the wake of the Internet boom's bust.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2008

Only an amusing cameo by David Bowie enlivens things, but he's onscreen for just about two minutes at the end.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jul 11, 2008

There's not much to it, but Austin Chick's hyper-focused indie does serve as a nicely assured showcase for lead Josh Hartnett.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2008

Has a dark desperation that(TM)s morbidly compelling. But the movie(TM)s amoral momentum is fatally slowed by an acronym-heavy script and flimsy characterizations that offer fine actors...little to play.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2008

all gloss and pizzazz but mostly pizz and no azz.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2008

August is a brooding, boring indie drama about the death of the culture-wide hallucination that was the dot-com bubble, and the moment when countless dot-com millionaires on paper became real-life paupers.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 10, 2008

Merely serves to watch a company's ashes fall without really considering what started the fire.

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

August seems to be missing something essential -- a prologue? Or maybe it's not what's missing that's the problem, but what's here.

| Jul 10, 2008

Rodman's potentially intriguing idea about the 2001 crash of the dot-com biz just months before 9/11 is poorly executed by helmer Chick (XX/XY), who doesn't take full advantage of his star cast, headed by Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris and David Bowie.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2008

A procession of anger mismanagement protagonist episodes of rude behavior with assorted unbelievably receptive babes, and a glutton-for-punishment old flame (Naomie Harris) whom he manages to re-con into bed, before she wises up all over again.

| Jul 7, 2008

Hartnett does windbag cockiness well, yet the overriding conception of his character and the Dot Com phenom in general is so straightforward and unrevealing that his effort goes for naught.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 7, 2008

The direction by somebody called Austin Chick gives the appearance of being phoned in from an Internet bar in another town.

| Jul 2, 2008