Highly irritating and nonsensical

| Sep 16, 2018

There is much promise here from the young director, Greg Harrison.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 15, 2005

It doesn't always succeed, and sometimes it has the egocentric obviousness of a particularly clever, grad-student thesis film, but at least Harrison is game enough to mess with your head in the first place.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 4, 2005

The lack of proper resolution to the story is more vexing than intriguing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2005

Does not provide enough 'clues' to Sophie's emotional background to make us care whether or not she survives the trauma of 7/11.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2005

Best approached and appreciated as a puzzle that can be completed in various ways and a reminder that memory, like images, can be fixed, but not always trusted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2005

In the gritty psychological thriller November, a gutsy Courteney Cox puts a world of distance between herself and her lightweight 'Friends' image.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2005

Ambiguous in a satisfying, puzzling sort of way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2005

A detective investigating the shooting comments on some photos that pertain to the case: 'It's a shame. They're almost too arty for their own good.' The same can easily be said about November.

| Aug 11, 2005

Even though Cox does her best (and her steely self-assured minimalistic performance is the best thing going on), November has a pulse so static it's nearly nonexistent. In fact, like the murder at its core this picture is so cold it's actually DOA.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 7, 2005

Excruciatingly, the film disgorges its crime and variations of it again and again. We'd prefer more detective work and less of what plays out as a grisly loop.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2005

Whatever we think one minute is utterly meaningless, without connection, the next.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2005

Director Greg Harrison seems more interested in pretentiously highbrow visual effects than developing a compelling narrative during November, his convoluted, ineffective psychological thriller.

| Original Score: D | Aug 4, 2005

It's intriguing when a film is about tension, and its method is about tension, and the two seem to be pulling against each other.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2005

If you like this sort of challenge, there are better examples (try The Machinist) than this lugubrious and derivative work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2005

Neither the characters nor the ideas in Benjamin Brand's screenplay are developed enough to warrant even a 73-minute running time, and Harrison doesn't have the actors he needs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2005

Beware serious movies starring former sitcom stars. Beware thrillers about photographers. Bewares movies set in convenience stores.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 29, 2005

I liked it even better the second time when I knew where we were heading.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2005

A cleverly assembled film, shot and edited on digital video for a pittance, November wants only to be an entertainingly squirmy mind tease.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2005

There's no real payoff -- artistically or emotionally -- in Gregory Harrison's gimmicky and tedious psychological thriller November, shot on ugly digital video.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 22, 2005