Autumn Reviews
Autumn is a nearly perfect satire of the pretentious French thriller. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't know it.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 24, 2006
A colossal misfire, a tedious film noir wannabe.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 23, 2006
It's hard enough to care about why these people are striking fashion-model poses and shooting at each other without having to think about their poor, bruised inner children.
Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 22, 2006
Hmm, has somebody seen Breathless? I guess so.
| Jun 22, 2006
Pic overall has the look, depth and emotional impact of a glossy magazine fashion spread.
Full Review | Jun 22, 2006
McGee may well have strong films in him, but this one feels pretentious and gassy.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2006
The cross-cultural backstory behind Autumn, a new French-language feature written, produced and directed by Ra'up McGee, is ultimately more interesting than what's seen onscreen.
Full Review | Jun 13, 2006
If you're in that select demographic of moviegoers who lose sleep over whether a synthesis of Kyzysztof Kieslowski and Quentin Tarantino could ever be forged, you can relax at last.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2006
Slow, pretentious and proudly inscrutable.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 9, 2006
Though Lucas and Jacob are lovely actors, you are not likely to care whose toes end up wearing tags.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 9, 2006
Autumn is as dry and lifeless as the leaves that fall to the ground in its opening images.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2006
Elegantly stylized but emotionally strained.
Full Review | Jun 8, 2006
[The] film begins with too much pretension but matures into a slinky, sexy piece of mood music.
| Jun 6, 2006
Finally, a version of Reservoir Dogs for The New Yorker set.
| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2006