| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Kutcher is a credible and potent leading man with an easy address to the camera. He carries off the movie with some style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2010

Letting things slide into a sort of low-calorie moral vacuum, Mackenzie hasn't so much nailed LA's culture of skin-deep gratification as produced an advert for it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2010

The ghosts of Shampoo, American Gigolo and even Alfie (both versions) cruelly haunt the ripe and raunchy frames of Mackenzie's Spread - another "shallow-stud-in-need-of-redemption" movie that pales in the face of its predecessors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 5, 2010

[Kutcher's] not a bad actor, in a lazy, self-conscious sort of way, but he's being propelled through a plot that has no guile, no subtlety, nothing at all, in fact, beyond a barely understood desire to punish him.

| Jan 5, 2010

Spread is sleazier than Tiger Woods in a zebra-print tuxedo but amid the flailing boobs and six-packs there's a fair bit of polish, probably thanks to talented young Scottish director David Mackenzie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2010

Allegedly a sex-com, this has moments of charm but the shallow tawdryness of the lead's life choices taints the whole film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2010

The film becomes unintentionally funny when he falls for another hustler (Margarita Levieva) with even less conscience, their grand passion leading to ludicrous behavior and soap-opera dialogue.

| Aug 20, 2009

Spread falls victim to the old rules of Hollywood comedies.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Although Kutcher deserves some credit for trying to spread his professional wings, it quickly becomes clear that he's in over his head.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2009

A witless homage to Shampoo and American Gigolo that's brain-dead on arrival.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Its formulaic, unconvincing story adds little to the conversation about slack ambition, mutual exploitation and evolving social mores.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Props to Kutcher for going to surprising, painful places. There's something haunted in his portrayal that hits hard and sticks.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

The film's biggest problem, though, is that it spends so much time in a vacuous Hollywood demimonde that some of the emptiness inevitably rubs off.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Mostly Spread feels likes a bungled opportunity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2009

More skin is shown in Spread than in most Hollywood movies. But despite twitches of insight into its characters and their world, Spread refuses go more than skin deep.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2009

Mackenzie is a consummate stylist, one of British cinema's emerging 21st-century talents, who has displayed a remarkable ability to make interesting movies that get in their own way and never reach wide audiences.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2009

The pic reveals the palpable pressure to resolve matters pressing heavily on a screenwriter who opted for an unsatisfactory shortcut to an ending.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2009

For this kind of film to work it's necessary to like or at least feel sympathy for the characters.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2009