This isn't great Altman but it's fun Altman.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2010

Most of what transpires is low-key, affectionate comedy and a fair amount of fun.

| Jul 21, 2010

Cookie's Fortune is a wittily diagrammed portrait of a small town shaken to its roots by this deceptive calamity. The movie, though, never really becomes more than a diagram.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2010

The deceptively modest Cookie's Fortune may or not be Robert Altman's best film in years, but it is certainly his most pleasurable.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2009

What's so distinctively charming is the easygoing tone, which manages to turn black comedy into a strangely gentle, touching and delicate affair.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002

The old energy and bite may be lacking, but at least this lazy, amiable shaggy-dog story was made in the same freewheeling, idiosyncratic way as Altman's best work.

| Mar 5, 2002

Robert Altman's jaundiced eye absolutely twinkles in Cookie's Fortune.

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

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

Altman's digressive, shaggy-dog style turns out to be well-suited to Southern Gothic.

| Jan 1, 2000

Robert Altman has delivered a lot of surprises in his long directing career, and his new comedy, Cookie's Fortune, is one of the most refreshing -- not because it's so good, but because it's so sweet and affectionate.

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

The Southern-Gothic-lite tapestry Rapp builds allows Altman to do some of his most nuanced storytelling.

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

Cookie's Fortune is Robert Altman's sunniest film, a warm-hearted comedy that somehow manages to deal with death and murder charges without even containing a real villain.

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

Altman's folkloric feints and throwaways are very easy on the eyes; he shows off his townspeople with such affection that after a while they begin to glow. The movie is a jaunty little jape.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

One well-telegraphed disclosure is heartwarmingly self-congratulatory, the other genealogical bombshell totally inconsequential.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The sweet assurance and guerrilla wit of Robert Altman's vintage ensemble films makes a serenely captivating return.

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