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

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

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

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

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

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

The actors are not well supported by Howard A. Rodman's self-satisfied script, which would rather tell than show, relying at several points on long, smug speeches that bring the narrative to a grinding halt.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2008

This middling drama has no glaring faults, but simply lacks the intended urgency. There's scant sense of surprise in a narrative trajectory that feels preordained.

Full Review | Jan 28, 2008