As disturbing and unsettling as the subject matter is what is truly sad is that the performances of the two leads were impressive and they ended up being wasted by the trash content of the script.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Though Williams and Johnson fit comfortably into the European naturalism that's become Mnch's stock in trade, they can't quite wriggle out of his high-concept premise and become plausibly real.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

Seems like the work of a novice, with self-conscious expository passages and emotionally false conversations.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 29, 2005

...incest...pedophilia...the film seems to be nothing more than an attempt to affirm a sense of I'm-OK-you're-OK normality for any viewers with such issues in their own lives.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2005

You watch this prurient would-be porn, treated with kid-glove 'sensitivity,' in a state of disbelief.

| Mar 24, 2005

To consider Harry and Max as being about incestuous feelings would be shortchanging it, because the film is really about the evolving nature of love and the need to define it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2005

The movie is a congeries of half-formed ideas about pansexuality and other social taboos, but Munch fails to accomplish what he seemingly sets out to do.

| Mar 24, 2005

Provocative without being especially thoughtful or credible.

Full Review | Mar 10, 2005

The blurred boundary between intimacy and sexuality ... isn't broached with the sensitivity and maturity that it demands.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2005

Harry and Max is writer-director Christopher Munch's seemingly candid exorcism of any number of self-consciously naughty fantasies.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 19, 2005

Too superficial to shock or surprise.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 18, 2005

Chatty scenes ramble on and on, supporting characters are underdeveloped, and all the sibs' angst does little to make their tortured relationship very credible or interesting.

| Original Score: D | Feb 18, 2005

Director Christopher Munch deftly raises disturbing questions, but he fumbles badly when groping for answers.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 18, 2005

The film winds up dancing around the 500-lb gorilla in the middle of the room rather than facing the pathology of its real subject head-on.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 18, 2005

There are brave, boundary-breaching movies, and there are mad, foolhardy ones. Harry and Max belongs to the latter breed.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 17, 2005

Intermittently insightful, but a disappointment from the talented Munch.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2005

The emotional lives of the leads are as vacuous as a Joey Fatone B side.

Full Review | Feb 15, 2005

Perhaps the strangest element here isn't the narrative conceit itself, but the fact that director Munch handles it in such typically low-key, benevolently observant fashion.

Full Review | Feb 3, 2005

forgets along the way to tell a compelling story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2005

You can almost hear the filmmakers exhale with nervous relief, having made it through a film about incest without actually having an opinion on the subject.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 25, 2005