As failures go, Mojave is a pretty interesting one. But it's a failure nonetheless.

| Jun 14, 2017

Isaac is charming and bonhomous as ever, Hedlund is suitably brooding yet dim looking, and Mark Wahlberg is a hoot as a chippy producer perpetually playing host to bored prostitutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Mojave is deeply annoying.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Oscar Isaac makes a great villain and the film entertains.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2016

Might have made a good episode of 'Entourage'.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2016

The screenwriter of The Departed aims for a statement about the perils of fame, but instead comes off as the poster boy for toxic celebrity narcissism.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 5, 2016

Writer/director William Monahan won an Oscar for penning The Departed and he obviously needs the discipline Martin Scorsese brought to that picture.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2016

A smudge on the writing record of William Monahan (The Departed), Mojave throws a Hollywood 'player' into the desert to meet the Devil with meandering and pointless results.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 4, 2016

In his second directorial effort, "Mojave," Monahan has no ... map to follow, and he wanders in a land of sophomoric pretentiousness and banal profundities.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 28, 2016

There is something kind of funny about these two bro-styled men arguing about the accuracy of a George Bernard Shaw quote while kicking the crap out of each other, but I'm not sure how much Monahan knows that, smart as he is.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 22, 2016

Its tone wavers wildly from serious to silly, and its half-baked climax comes off like a bad party trick.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 22, 2016

It would better to call it Two Actors in Search of a Story.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 22, 2016

Does it add up? Not really, but it passes the time nicely, working best when Mr. Monahan keeps it vague and off-kilter as his characters roam among the Hollywood ghosts.

| Jan 21, 2016

Like the high desert that provides its main setting, William Monahan's "Mojave" is dry, often windy and full of hot air.

| Jan 21, 2016

Prickly, suspenseful, even coolly humorous, "Mojave" finds noirish fun in the existential woes of a successful artist and old-fashioned movie pleasure in the parry and thrust of sharp dialogue.

| Jan 21, 2016

In the cast, only Isaac makes a vivid impression, in a swaggery, relaxed turn that seems to imply that he's in on the joke, or at least having a good time.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 21, 2016

Monahan gives Hedlund and in particular Isaac dozens upon dozens of rich, intricate lines, and they're both up to the task and then some.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 21, 2016

On the plus side, the Mojave desert looks mighty handsome, and I really liked the twangy guitar.

| Jan 21, 2016

Oscar Isaac's over-the-top performance as a menacing drifter can't save this turgid neo-noir western.

| Jan 21, 2016

Ultimately, "Mojave" is little more than a B movie with pretensions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 21, 2016