While it might be fun to laugh at carefully crafted slapstick for half an hour, it's hard for it to maintain its momentum for the duration of a feature.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2009

Watching it was a very cold experience.

| Original Score: C | Feb 24, 2008

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2007

It's heartening to see anyone pull off any sort of comedy along these classically established lines.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2007

Delightful in places, the surreal stunts are lovingly crafted. As a seaworthy film, though, Fiona's folly is more pratfall than plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 27, 2007

I found it striking but often strident, and neither funny nor edifying.

| Jul 27, 2007

Cute but toothless.

| Jul 26, 2007

'Deadpan' doesn't begin to describe the tongue-in-cheek mix of gravity and cool detachment in which L'Iceberg's slapstick nonsense thrives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Words seldom intrude on the sight gags that range from elegant to acrobatic, and the collective directors exhibit the rare bravery to let a static camera linger to crank comic tension.

| Original Score: A | Jul 12, 2007

Ultimately undone by its air of overly mannered preciousness.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2007

If mime is your idea of entertainment, you might have a good time, but others will feel as though they're trapped in an invisible box.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2007

It's funny and it's touching and it's weird and it's compelling and I think really gorgeous to look at as well.

Full Review | May 29, 2007

The Iceberg is a riot, a quintessential French comedy with an improbable plot and an unbelievable cast of characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2007

An amusing, inventive effort.

| Original Score: B+ | May 11, 2007

Admittedly, some of the humor doesn't translate well, and the performers tend to carry on too long in some scenes. Once the action shifts to the boat, there's only so much that can be done, given the confines of space. L'ICEBERG delivers laughs, though, a

| Original Score: B+ | May 7, 2007

Once we're out to sea the movie goes swimmingly -- its three protagonists fighting, flailing, and often on the verge of drowning as their tiny skiff surges toward the land of the Inuit.

| May 7, 2007

Tells its highly entertaining and surprisingly touching story almost exclusively through physical comedy.

| May 7, 2007

In the end, it's easier to admire than to love.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 5, 2007

The film's deliberate color palette and tightly choreographed, perfectly timed sequences recall Jacques Tati. But there's an irreverent, off-center humor here that's distinctly their own.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 4, 2007

Poignantly shot as a series of static landscapes into and out of and through which the characters move. At its most stunning, the technique finds contrary actions and moods coexisting in different parts of the frame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2007