One of those post-Coen Brothers crime thingys that goes to extremes to make sure that everyone knows the filmmakers are too painfully cool to really mean anything they're showing you.

| Feb 6, 2018

Slanted as a black comedy, but fails to secure the sufficiently outre tone (let alone any real suspense) needed to make it more than a middling retread.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

This quirky comedy thriller, produced by Ridley Scott, is both blackly funny and, at times, tensely disturbing and quite macabre.

| Feb 9, 2006

Brilliant direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

"You've got a sense of humor, I like that," Lester Long proclaims at one point. Well, we all like that, but would it be asking too much to have a little coherence to go along with it?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Within Clay Pigeons is a smaller story that might have involved us more, but it's buried by overkill.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

In a perfect world, Janeane Garofalo would be in every movie. That way, when the rest of the show bogged down, we'd still have her morbid wit and wry spin to hold onto.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A film that delights by confounding expectations.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's got unpredictable plot twists and unexpected laughs coming out of dark corners.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Clay Pigeons may not actually be a good movie, but it has many of the ingredients of one.

| Jan 1, 2000

It’s young-Hollywood-driven business as usual in this derivative, nasty, and ultimately empty drama.

| Original Score: D | Sep 25, 1998