It doesn't help that first-time screenwriter/director Nick Guthe created such a superficial group of characters. Few, if any, seem believable or are interesting enough to care about.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2006

The characters in Mini are played by fine performers (Alec Baldwin, Jeff Goldblum, Carrie-Anne Moss), but they're still one-note.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2006

Mini's First Time is a down-and-dirty exercise in depravity and debauchery; in other words, just the kind of plot that gets us to turn off the 온라인카지노추천 and head for the multiplex -- blue states and red states alike.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 1, 2006

Much of the film reeks of decadence and new money-the snazzy cars and clothes and the boxy, minimalist modern stone and glass interiors that are as cold as the characters themselves.

| Sep 1, 2006

Touches fleetingly on an interesting phenomenon - namely, the manner in which a father's advances simultaneously disgust and enthrall his teenage stepdaughter.

| Aug 31, 2006

Mini is a wonderful character, and she's the villain you simply can't help but root for, watching the dominoes fall where they must, and lets these yuppies self-destruct.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2006

Trashy but fun, Mini's First Time is like one of those paperback books you might take to the beach. You don't brag about having read it, but you enjoy every page.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2006

A deliciously evil black comedy that's sure to elicit lots of shameful giggles throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.2/5 | Jul 15, 2006

Mini's First Time is delectably vulgar for 20 minutes or so, almost too bad to be true, but it soon loses its cheap-thrills appeal.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 14, 2006

Pitch-black and bound to offend anyone who's not on its wavelength, Nick Guthe's entertainingly slick debut is a mordantly funny slice of lust, crime and sleaze life set in the world of L.A.'s industry elite.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2006

The director has created a stylish spoof filled with some razor-sharp dialogue and truly wild, original moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2006

Surrounded by all these pros, Reed more than holds her own: She has so much integrity about being amoral that she keeps the audience dangling between disgust and admiration.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2006

Mini has a cleverly devious wrap-around ending, but you have been warned: It's twisted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2006

The swirl of bad girl shenanigans, Hollywood satire and noir-ish melodrama in Mini's First Time that was intended to make for an icy cocktail of prurience and moral insight tastes more like freezer burn instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2006

It's a bad, preposterous and horrifyingly cliched black comedy about a girl gone wicked.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2006

Guthe is so anxious to show us what a larcenous tramp Mini is that he never shows us any other sides to her. We have her pegged from the get-go, even if no one in the movie does.

| Original Score: C | Jul 14, 2006

a bloated waste of time and money... an unequivocal low.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 13, 2006

Mini's First Time is Bret Easton Ellis territory with palm trees, explored by smarmy blunderers.

| Jul 13, 2006

A comedy that's a mix of Mean Girls, Mamet and Mephistopheles.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2006

Mini is too tame for Skina-max and too inane to survive on the art-house circuit. It's a pretentious erotic thriller that gives honest trash a bad name.

| Jul 13, 2006