Strange but intriguing pic about alienation from the modern-day tech world.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 3, 2015

Murky and humorless.

| Mar 1, 2007

The film is resolutely committed to its affectations of deepness and meaningfulness, but all it imparts is a sense of tediousness.

| Feb 8, 2006

Casts an undeniable and lingering spell for those who enjoy their cinema spiked with adventure and philosophy.

| Original Score: B | Dec 16, 2005

The future is quieter, emotionally subdued and grayly mysterious, at least in the small hop forward imagined by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2005

Even if you're not quite down with Almereyda's digital-age existentialism, he has impeccable taste in music.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 16, 2005

This is a droll, laid-back film noir steeped in Crescent City atmosphere and music that culminates in the colliding worlds of genuine and virtual reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 16, 2005

Michael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 16, 2005

Michael Almereyda's futuristic mystery isn't a complete misfire, but it does leave you with the same baffled blankness that suffuses his isolated, techno-dependent characters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 16, 2005

Mourning and gloom weigh upon most of the characters in Michael Almereyda's convoluted and numbingly pretentious Happy Here and Now

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 15, 2005

This small masterpiece has been one of the best films around not to secure a proper theatrical release.

| Dec 15, 2005

Set in New Orleans, this collection of loosely connected set pieces was written and directed by Michael Almereyda, who is perhaps best known for his 2000 iteration of Hamlet.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2005

The dialogue is much like a bull session in a college dorm room, right before the munchies set in.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 14, 2005

When Amelia takes the full multimedia plunge in the movie's final moments, Happy becomes something inexplicably (and metaphysically) beautiful.

| Dec 13, 2005

A rich kaleidoscope of sights and sounds that sing out in their vitality.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 11, 2005

Almereyda is tripped up by this grab at cosmic profundity, and lands in a sticky puddle of pretension.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

To make an inexact analogy, 'Happy Here and Now' is to New Orleans as 'Mystery Train' was to Memphis...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2003

While technically brilliant and gorgeous to watch, Happy Here and Now feels as unfocused and uneven as it is ambitious and intellectually frustrating.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 27, 2003

The film transcends what occasionally seems to be oddness for its own sake.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10 | Jan 2, 2003