...a watchable yet disappointing piece of work...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 31, 2010

The film is quite literally fragmented. Too much story -- and too little about each character.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2009

[A] well acted ensemble piece that I think you should see.

| Aug 10, 2009

The grand statement it wants to make plays shallow instead of deep, leaving the film too weak-kneed to carry the weight of its broken world.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

A well-directed tense drama with a terrific cast, it is an old-fashioned, no-nonsense film with no special effects that relies on acting and script.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 7, 2009

Even as it makes a show of complexity Fragments seems determined to pull together its various story strands.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 6, 2009

Crash's Best Picture Oscar win helped jump-start a wave of self-deluded ensemble imitators who seem to feel that overt emotionalism ladled over a loosely connected narrative is a surefire sign of Important Filmmaking. Witness Fragments.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Aug 4, 2009

Less a movie than a sociology thesis.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 4, 2009

Rowan Woods indulges in some sub-subpar Crash territory here, with a laughably self-serious narrative that has less to do with reality than histrionics.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2009

Despite its very impressive lineup, this film is full of inconsistencies and moves at a slow pace. So many performances are wasted.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 31, 2009

Fragments is both deeply self-serious and essentially meaningless, the sort of we're-all-connected tragedy in which birds fly free while humans remain stuck in place.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Frierich's hook is, well, killer. And Woods is patient with his story, letting small glances and tiny actions speak volumes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2009

The casting directors of Fragments deserve credit for assembling so much talent in one modest movie; if only Rowan Woods, the director, knew what to do with them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Vividly conveys the sorrow and suffering brought into the lives of five individuals by a man with a gun and his act of random violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2009

Yet another example of an undeniable truth in drama -- without the right screenplay, the best cast in the world can't make a film worth seeing.

| Jul 30, 2009

The anxiety is deafening in this flimsy symphony of shattered lives, which -- like that confounding Oscar winner Crash -- confuses entropy for empathy.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Jul 30, 2009

The hell that Paul Haggis hath wrought grows exponentially by the day.

| Jul 30, 2009

The pace is too languid to sustain much viewer concentration, and whatever the characters go through seems only peripherally connected to the shooting in the diner. Close, but no cigar.

| Jul 29, 2009

A harrowing examination of the metaphysical harm inflicted by gun massacres.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2009

There's a miserable sense of a country that's terminally sick in the head and spirit. It's a tiresome idea, no matter how well the actors play it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009