Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2007

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2005

An overstylized, pured mlange of sex, psychology, drugs and philosophy. Sometimes entertaining, sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery.

| Original Score: D | May 27, 2003

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Grenier is terrific, bringing an unforced, rapid-fire delivery to Toback's Heidegger- and Nietzsche-referencing dialogue.

| Oct 28, 2002

I think it was Plato who said, 'I think, therefore I know better than to rush to the theatre for this one.'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2002

The attempt is courageous, even if the result is wildly uneven.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 5, 2002

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 31, 2002

A semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more central to the creation of Bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2002

Might have been played as a glum cautionary tale, but in Toback's hands it becomes a lark--flashy, florid and blissfully over-the-top.

| Original Score: B | Aug 26, 2002

There's a certain niche audience that will eat up Harvard Man -- but whether that's the mob-movie set, the college-movie set, or the sex-movie set, I really have no idea.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2002

A frustrating 'tweener' -- too slick, contrived and exploitative for the art houses and too cynical, small and decadent for the malls.

| Jul 23, 2002

If it's seldom boring, well, it's also rarely coherent.

| Original Score: C | Jul 15, 2002

For those who accept the offbeat premise, the film ultimately delivers a satisfying dramatic exploration of the ways we create ourselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 14, 2002

What makes the movie work is that the premise, which sounds like a comedy, is treated with the seriousness of life and death.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2002

Toback offers a complex, borderline campy, and oddly entertaining study of modern moral dilemmas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2002

A crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2002

Harvard Man is a semi-throwback, a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality.

| Jul 3, 2002

A characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 2, 2002