| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2003

The film is torn between playing [Taylor's] character for real and as a dangerous joke.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2003

Meyjes focuses too much on Max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured, dull artist and monster-in-the- making.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Taylor, hawk-faced and gaunt, pours everything into his portrayal of Hitler, never once seeking our sympathy for this angry, homeless loner.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2003

A fascinating and engrossing film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2003

Offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2003

If it's not a completely successful film, it is at the very least an intriguing effort to humanize the demon.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 7, 2003

Fascinating story from screenwriter- turned-director Menno Meyjes.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2003

Mad Max just sails off into nonsense.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2003

One of the most intriguing and odd 'what if' movies ever conceived.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2003

With lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- Max is static, stilted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2003

As a ravishingly photographed, high-minded meditation on the potential of art and therapy to exorcise the vilest sort of psychological poison, it is positively riotous -- an Everest of idiocy.

| Jan 31, 2003

The best thing about Max is its originality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2003

An intelligent film with a sophisticated understanding of art and the significance it played in Hitler's psychology.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2003

Peculiar and intriguing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 24, 2003

A mildly flawed but nonetheless compelling 'what if?' interpretation of the events that shaped a singularly hateful man.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 23, 2003

A flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2003

The movie tries, and largely succeeds, in putting a human face -- an ugly one -- on the otherwise incomprehensibly chilling mask of Nazi inhumanity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2003

Is it offensively bad or, that rarest of stinkers, intriguingly bad?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 17, 2003