The perfect sort of film for Steve Buscemi to direct.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

An unintentional parody of Sundance Hades circa 1996

| Aug 30, 2009

"Lonesome Jim" is an earnest and modest 'little independent' movie that charms by way of its understated underachieving characters.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 20, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Minimalist, moody and morose, Lonesome Jim is a minor gem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2008

The world would be a better place if Steve Buscemi made more movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2008

Steve Buscemi's third film as a director is a low key affair delivered with a wry sense of humour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2008

It's poignant, quietly life-affirming little story that doesn't need to shout. Lonesome Jim's good company.

| Apr 11, 2008

Though this clash of picket-fenced, down-home values and big city oafishness was handled with a little more delicacy in 2005's superb 'Junebug', Buscemi's film has lots to say about this fruitful dynamic.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Apr 11, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2008

Has great relevance to the lost adultolescent generation of today ... but it also flounders in its commonplace and too-familiar concept.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 2007

A depressing illustration of how even Middle America has ended up marginalized and rudderless in the wake of outsourcing, downsizing and globalization.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2007

As the credits started to roll, I came to a pleasant and all-too-rare moviegoing realization: The smile that had crept across my face during the very first scene had never left.

| Mar 1, 2007

Its title character is such a lifeless loser, you wish Moonstruck's Cher was around to slap him hard and yell, 'Snap out of it!'

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 2, 2006

"Lonesome Jim" is worth checking out, if nothing else for the performances and Buscemi's idiosyncratic sense of irony.

| May 26, 2006

Too many movies offer cardboard cutouts of even their primaries, but Jim delivers honest, three-dimensional portraits of each of the major players.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2006

Manages to be bitter, dispiriting and utterly pointless all at once.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 19, 2006

Helped by the precise details of small-town life and laughs generated by circumstances almost everyone can relate to, Lonesome Jim is gratifying because of its nearly cheerful depiction of sorrow, not in spite of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2006

Fancies itself a black comedy, but there's only one joke, and it's that dark-cloud-over- Jim's-head thing -- and it wears thin fast.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2006

It all feels very slight.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 19, 2006