Fails to overcome its vapid drama.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 4, 2017

This is an agreeable but hardly challenging film, a movie perfect for a night by the fire when you want to curl up and relax.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 21, 2007

Aside from its mouthful of a title and Robin Wright Penn's monumentally bad haircut, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog actually has a lot going for it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2006

A minor film that's no more than a trifle with some comic touches

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2005

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Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2004

Has an unusually high ratio of laughs per minute.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2004

...a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2003

Kalesniko manages to keep all this stuff entertainingly cynical and doesn't let the ever-present sentimental goop overcome his story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2002

An offbeat, nimble and surprisingly winning little 'life comedy' [that] captures with entertaining aplomb the spry whimsy of a writer's brain in action.

| Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2002

A succinct effort to explore how our relationships force us to re-evaluate what we want out of life at the most inopportune and unexpected of times.

| Original Score: 74/100 | Jun 29, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2002

A film that will likely not "wow" anyone over...but entertaining from a character point of view

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 26, 2002

Run, don't walk, to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the big screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 3, 2002

Falsehoods pile up, undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2002

A surprising drama about the emptiness of cynicism when stacked up against the bounties of compassion.

| Feb 24, 2002

Kenneth Branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly British playwright grounds this overstuffed, erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in Los Angeles.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 22, 2002

... comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 22, 2002

Despite the top-quality talent and some occasionally witty shots on the vanity of Hollywood, this Dog simply isn't best in show.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 22, 2002

Mordantly funny and intimately knowing ...

| Feb 22, 2002