A little bit of love; a lot of laughter and a lot of sex and a lot of..... Sex and Death 101. Mandatory viewing required.

| Nov 16, 2019

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Heaven help a writer who turns a philanderer into a blank.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Admittedly, it doesn't have many belly laughs, but if you're tuned into Waters' peculiar, highly intelligent comedy style it's a fascinating watch.

| Jul 17, 2008

the monologues near the truly odd ending make you wonder whether Waters had an extreme fever when he was finishing up the script

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 6, 2008

As a writer, Waters is best-known for creating Ryder's sharp black comedy, Heathers, and Bruce Willis' self-indulgent bomb, Hudson Hawk. As a director, he tends to waste actors, and he fails to establish a consistent comic tone.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 11, 2008

Sex and Death falls into the category of those unfortunate films in that it's a schoolboy's wet dream slathered in smug self-back patting and wish-fantasy run amok, all told with the deftness of a piano falling out of the sky and onto our heads.

| Original Score: D | Apr 11, 2008

A fun, sloppy treatment of a profound premise that, as a reunion project between Waters and Ryder, feels right.

| Apr 10, 2008

There are a lot of laughs, good performances, and points for creativity.

Full Review | Apr 7, 2008

Now we know how the dopes in the beer commercials spend their time when they are not drinking their beer. They laugh their socks off at movies like this.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Apr 4, 2008

Waters is trying to have his cake and eat it out too.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2008

One of the most pointless films ever made about sex or death.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2008

It's all a pretentious bore that feels twice as long as it's two-hour running time.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 4, 2008

Why not simply admit this is cheeseball porn, assembled with a slightly higher brand of cheese and nuts?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 4, 2008

This film is headed quickly for DVD. In the video store, though, it isn't funny enough to be shelved in the comedy section nor dirty enough to be filed with the smut.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Apr 4, 2008

What a sorry reunion for Ryder and writer-director Daniel Waters, who scripted her far better dark comedy Heathers back in 1989.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 4, 2008

The movie aims to be an unbridled sex farce, but the sex is never all that hot and the jokes are rarely all that funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2008

The film works hard to be a dark, grown up, romantic comedy (plenty of sex, nudity, bad language and philosophy) and yet it winds up being every bit as childish as most other pictures in the genre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2008

The comedy grows more and more gratingly cynical and unpleasant.

| Apr 4, 2008

Neither particularly dark nor even remotely funny.

| Apr 4, 2008