Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A limp, unfunny time-waster.

| Original Score: C | Oct 22, 2008

Despite its laid-back script, Smiley Face is as prankishly political as Mr. Araki's Doom Generation...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 28, 2007

Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventh-hour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's Nowhere, and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn.

| Dec 28, 2007

It's a fittingly loose, shambling little nothing of a comedy that's occasionally inspired, but at least a draft or two short of its potential. Still, it's a pleasure to watch Faris wander slack-jawed through a surreal day in Los Angeles.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 26, 2007

One shudders to think what Smiley Face might have been with someone like Paris Hilton in the role. But Faris has this character -- a bright, sweet college graduate with a temporarily incapacitated brain -- down perfect.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 26, 2007

Araki's latest is surprisingly mellow in its examination of ganja-fueled apathy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 19, 2007

Basically a sketch padded out to feature length, the film constantly hovers on the edge between amiable and annoying.

| Dec 17, 2007

An unabashed valentine to Anna Faris, an opportunity for the actress to show that she can carry a movie composed of often hilarious nonstop misadventures.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2007

A pure, mostly dumb comedy, it's the tale of one impossibly out-of-it girl, Anna Faris' Jane F., who spends her day stumbling from mishap to mishap in an effort to avoid her drug dealer's wrath.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2007

In Faris, pic has a comedienne with the ability to wring endless variations on a limited theme (the 'I'm-so-baked' one) and she pretty much single-handedly compensates for anything lacking.

Full Review | Jan 27, 2007

Gregg Araki's latest foray into the slacker underbelly of suburban L.A., Smiley Face, has a wonderful performance by Anna Faris and one of the all-time great stoner monologues in movie history.

| Jan 24, 2007