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

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

Does anyone remember when Madonna was considered shocking?

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

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

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

Nothing in this cynical bit of claptrap feels remotely real.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 24, 2008

This is a movie that's just sort of there, and nobody much would have paid any attention to it without the Madonna connection. And chances are nobody much will even with that connection.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 24, 2008

For an artist who has spent so much of her career reinventing herself to lead pop culture, not to mention fatten her pocketbook, Madonna seems at her most sincere behind this camera. She coaxes genuine moments from the three principals.

| Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2008

Madonna has made a career out of toying with image and ego, but this is a vanity project in the smallest sense possible.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 24, 2008

Madonna shoots it all like a home movie made by someone who has been on the other side of the camera so often, doing music videos, reality no longer feels remotely real.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 24, 2008

Impossibly arty and, at times, narratively incoherent, Filth and Wisdom still has its goofy charms.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2008

Madonna fans will probably want to go anyway -- hey, I can't stop you -- but I can tell you that the movie delivers on neither of the promises of its title.

| Oct 23, 2008

Madonna, making her directorial debut, aims for the romping irreverence of Richard Lester's 60s comedies, and though she lacks the formal control to pull it off, this is a charming mess.

| Oct 23, 2008

This is a very deeply non-caring movie. I liked Hutz when he sang. I imagine Gene Shalit ate his heart out when he saw Hutz's moustache.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2008

Leave it to the Material Girl to confound all knife-sharpened expectations, even in mediocrity.

Full Review | Oct 22, 2008

Paying audiences aren't usually subjected to projects this amateurish.

Full Review | Original Score: d | Oct 18, 2008

While Filth And Wisdom may not quite inhabit the same Hall of Shame as Shanghai Surprise, Body of Evidence and (God save us) Swept Away, it's likely to be forgotten as quickly as most of them.

| Oct 18, 2008

Despite its many shortcomings and an ending so mushy and neat it would embarrass Richard Curtis, Madonna has done herself proud.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008