It's a surreal, offbeat comedy where the kidnappers are hopelessly inept while Bell feels hopelessly at sea.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2007

Despite the top-drawer cast assembled for his debut feature, the director Arie Posin's account of emotional dislocation in the 'burbs is stymied by a fatally uneven tone and a growing suspicion that we've been down this road many, many times before.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2007

A tragic waste of acting talent, with nothing new to say. Can we please now politely close the door on middle-class repression before we get really angry?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2007

Much like its characters: decorative, entertaining and emotionally empty.

| Jun 7, 2007

Posin aims for are out of his reach and he's left to scrabble desperately for a story to plug in the gaps.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2007

An impassioned and occasionally mesmerizing first effort that's at once messier, more complex and more ambitious than many recent suburban dystopias.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2005

The story of the film: Studio money chasing after the cult-film audience and getting all the superficial elements right while missing the spirit entirely. It's the cinematic equivalent of Candlebox.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

An appallingly clumsy and stupid take on drugs, kidnapping and suicide in suburbia.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 9, 2005

It's a tricky road, and goodness knows Posin and screenwriter Zac Stanford hit their share of speed bumps, but somehow these two still manage to craft one of the more singularly original breathlessly entertaining pictures I've seen this summer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2005

| Original Score: C | Aug 9, 2005

It's a Big Idea movie that comes out only half-baked.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 9, 2005

There are some very good performances and some strong writing.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2005

Exploring suburban malaise is nothing new ... but The Chumscrubber puts a fresh coat on the arguments.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2005

An insufferable, self-conscious cult movie.

| Aug 4, 2005

It's vision of suburban living is about as artificial and narrow-minded as the original NES Paperboy game it seemingly evokes during its opening CGI sequence

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2005