Here's a stage play that should never have been given the big-screen treatment.

| May 25, 2022

Sean Penn gives another remarkable performance.

| Apr 2, 2019

All the time, you hear the wooden clunk of a theatre which still thinks that Eugene O'Neill is a great writer of natural dialogue.

| Nov 28, 2017

Rabe has streamlined the dialogue, sacrificing a lot of funny throwaway lines without lessening the script's burden on our patience.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 24, 2007

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 14, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

This black alleged comedy wouldn't be funny at all if it weren't for Kevin Spacey's droll wit and silly bleach do. Sean Penn's self-indulgent performance and the unfocused script make sitting through Hurlyburly a chore.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Aug 11, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 7, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Depicts hedeonism as a grim exercise in cynicism, betrayal and emptiness.

| Mar 2, 2002

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 28, 2002

Desperately seeking Mamet.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 10, 2001

What may have worked on Broadway comes across on screen as pretentious and dull. ...neither funny nor revealing, just stuffy and longwinded.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | May 7, 2001

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 1, 2000

The trailer defines the term as 'tumultuous commotion, uproar,' and it could not more aptly describe this high-strung but virtually plotless film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Hurlyburly earns its keep, in the end, with writerly flash and dramatic virtuosity.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000