| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

An undisciplined mess.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2004

For Miike freaks only (and you know who you are). Everyone else: Stay far, far away.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 17, 2004

There is something compelling about the way this film sneakily taps into our collective psychosexual fantasies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2004

I don't think this is quite the film with which to begin a Miike investigation.

| Sep 10, 2004

Makes little sense on paper. As a film, however, it somehow feels richly, hilariously real, even -- at its most bizarre -- familiar.

| Sep 10, 2004

A film that parlays the hoary clichés of the yakuza film into a stunningly surrealistic exercise in cinematic madness.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2004

Not your average midnight movie but something more hermetic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2004

Miike is sometimes ill-served by his scripts, but here screenwriter Sakichi Sato never flags, coming up with one gloriously grotesque incident after another.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 12, 2004

A one-way ticket to Weirdsville, it occasionally ambles into cul-de-sacs of its own making, but ultimately proves that Miike is one of the most consistently innovative and unpredictable directors in the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2004

There isn't much that Miike won't throw into his nightmare mix, yet the movie is almost prankish in its slack indulgence.

| Original Score: C | Aug 5, 2004

Miike is at the top of his game, loving every minute of his surreal visit to the twilight zone.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 30, 2004

Having challenged his audience with ultraviolent movies, Japanese shockmeister Takashi Miike throws us for a real loop with a screwball comedy. Granted, we're talking about a guy who considers squashed puppies hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 30, 2004

For Mr. Miike's fans, it will be an indispensable compendium of outtakes and sketches. For others, it will be a mystifying and provocative introduction to his unnerving, wanton and prodigious imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2004

Splendidly entertaining.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2004

Despite being overlong and lumbered with some clunky broad humor, the sharply lensed film remains compelling, driven by the curiosity of seeing what the director will throw in next.

| Jul 7, 2004

Unlike Ichi the Killer and the considerably shorter Visitor Q, Gozu's random acts of hysteria don't seem to add up to anything.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 29, 2004