Enticing, entertaining and yes, sexy, but with a sentimental poignancy all its own, the best bit of wisdom I can offer you this week is to check out Filth And Wisdom.

| Nov 7, 2019

The humour is slight and the directing often perfunctory, with Madonna failing to get more than ordinary performances from her cast.

| May 15, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

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

Madonna's direction isn't half-bad...too bad she chose a poor script teeming with uninteresting characters

| Original Score: C- | Feb 27, 2009

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 14, 2008

Either Madonna failed to successfully guide her movie to a coherent state of mind or she simply has no gift for filmmaking. A case could be made for both, though the latter is an awfully tempting summarization of Filth and Wisdom.

| Original Score: D | Nov 13, 2008

This is a terrible, terrible worthless movie that you shouldn't give any time to.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2008

I'm confident the material girl has more good material for movies ahead of her.

| Nov 10, 2008

If this were the first film of a 17-year-old who got a camcorder for his birthday...it could be called a promising first effort.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 7, 2008

It's sweeter and sunnier than its material suggests, but not smarter.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 7, 2008

Does anyone remember when Madonna was considered shocking?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2008

Imagine having a philosophical discussion with Madonna. I imagine it would be like having one with any other high school dropout.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2008

At 84 minutes, the movie feels both overpadded and underdeveloped.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 31, 2008

Madonna's directing debut shows that the megastar did not learn a lot about film craft and creates a routine, occasional amusing debut oeuvre. It should have been a more mature work and it is not.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 30, 2008

Message to the director: Don't quit your day job just yet, but in the category of multidisciplinary artists moonlighting as filmmakers, I'll take you over Julian Schnabel any day.

| Oct 30, 2008

There's no wisdom in this script.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2008

As Bart Simpson once said of NAKED LUNCH, I can think of two things wrong with this title.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2008

Curiosity-seekers may trickle in, but despite the deliberate move to release the flick unrated, there's nothing in here to merit a raised eyebrow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2008

At 83 minutes, it's tedious, pretentious, and just plain boring. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing does.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 27, 2008