Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2009

I watched the brainless insanity of No Such Thing with mounting disbelief.

| Apr 10, 2002

No Such Thing may be far from perfect, but those small, odd Hartley touches help you warm to it.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2002

Everything's serious, poetic, earnest and -- sadly -- dull.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 29, 2002

By the end of No Such Thing the audience, like Beatrice, has a watchful affection for the monster.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2002

Hartley never gets a firm grasp on this material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2002

What [Hartley] wants, and gets, is a fablish mood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 29, 2002

Laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2002

Tender yet lacerating and darkly funny fable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2002

Much as I value independence in art, it's possible for a filmmaker to crawl so far onto his own wavelength that he loses touch with everything else.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 29, 2002

Inexplicable, shapeless, dull.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 29, 2002

The script kicks in, and Mr. Hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2002

Plodding, peevish and gimmicky.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2002

Too intensely focused on the travails of being Hal Hartley to function as pastiche, No Such Thing is Hartley's least accessible screed yet.

| Mar 26, 2002

Flaccid drama and exasperatingly slow journey.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2001