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

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

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

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

It all feels very slight.

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

An interesting but unsuccessful study, although viewers should be cautioned about falling victim to its malaise.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2006

The problem is that a little of this minimalist kitchen-sink farce goes a very long way, and after a while Lonesome Jim starts to dry up.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2006

A slight, but amusing and occasionally touching, dark comedy about depression and dysfunction that percolates with indie film hipness.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 20, 2006

The biggest problem Buscemi has is that his central character has, by definition, very little distinct character.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 14, 2006

While Lonesome Jim may be clinically acute, it is by its very nature dramatically inert.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

The script is adroit: It doesn't force the humor, and it steadily keeps track of Jim's growing maturity.

| Apr 13, 2006

Sweet and darkly funny for most of its 91 minutes, it falters only in a dawdling final stretch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2006

Jim's characters may grow on you after a slow setup and, like a hot plate of grits, may stick with you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2006

Mr. Affleck is burdened with the difficult task of making moroseness seem interesting. He doesn't succeed, and neither does the movie.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 7, 2006

Nothing in this well-intentioned but lifeless indie draws the hard laughter that comes from creating characters that somehow get to you.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2006

Feels like a first film, but "Jim" is Buscemi's third feature and because it marks a technical decline from his earlier efforts, I can't help but greet it with disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2006

[Strouse] has written a forlorn and poetic story, and Buscemi has made it into a movie about taking a deep breath and deciding to stop being a mope.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2006

Lonesome Jim -- despite its excellent cast, controlled direction and moody, well-judged atmospherics -- tends to alienate us, just as Affleck's Jim does.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 30, 2006

Steve Buscemi's a very good director.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2006

If Lonesome Jim feels like it's perpetually on the verge of evaporating, Buscemi brings to the material the boundless empathy for misfits and screw-ups he displayed in Trees Lounge.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2006

One of those indie excursions to Loserville that lasts an hour and a half but feels longer than Roots.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2006