Sean Penn gives another remarkable performance.

| Apr 2, 2019

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

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

| Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Eddie, the Sean Penn character, is a bruised romantic with a good mind, who is as unhappy as a person can be, and in a riveting scene uses cocaine to take him to a place free of raw emotional pain. It is a remarkable performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: C- | Dec 25, 1998