This is the sort of Pumpkin that really deserves to be smashed.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 16, 2002

By presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world, Pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2002

Though Pumpkin extends its jaundiced joke too far, it's almost worth it for Ricci's final scene, which tells us everything we need to know about what will become of her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 2, 2002

Weird. Rewarding.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 26, 2002

If you believe any of this, I can make you a real deal on leftover Enron stock that will double in value a week from Friday.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2002

[T]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously, and the Stepford Wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 19, 2002

A dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality, probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2002

Instead of putting an easy-to-swallow candy coating on a touchy subject, Pumpkin searches for beauty in ugliness and quality in imperfection.

| Original Score: B | Jul 11, 2002

For all its many flaws, Pumpkin has some worthwhile ideas and funny moments, and its whacked-out heart is in the right place.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2002

Although I often found it hysterically funny, I was never quite sure if I was laughing at it or with it.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2002

Remember: These are two hours of your life you'll never get back.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2002

[A] rather thinly-conceived movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2002

Relentlessly, and sometimes brilliantly, it forces us to decide what we really think, how permissive our taste really is, how far a black comedy can go before it goes too far.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2002

The results are perversely watchable, as much for the movie's evasions as the controversial issues with which it toys. Often, it just seems carelessly smug.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 5, 2002

Pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless Todd Solondzian satire and callow student film.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 2, 2002

I wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2002

An opportunity missed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 28, 2002

Pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life, but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer Adam Larson Broder and his co-director, Tony R. Abrams, in their feature debut.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 28, 2002

Pumpkin will no doubt make many people uncomfortable -- but its full frontal assault on political correctness had me in stitches.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2002

The filmmakers try to balance pointed, often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness, with results that are sometimes bracing, sometimes baffling and quite often, and in unexpected ways, touching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2002