| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Like an ex-addict reminiscing over their days of dependence, it's dead behind the eyes: hollowed out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2003

It never quite convinces you this is anything but a fashion shoot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2003

A placebo of a film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 9, 2003

Ultimately, Spun has no more substance than American Pie II.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2003

This drug drama has enough drugs to stock a hospital but precious little in the way of drama.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 24, 2003

Both harrowing and funny, but I'm not sure the filmmakers would agree with everyone about which scenes are which.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2003

A loud, disorderly descent into narcissism, a movie so in love with itself that its gaze rarely leaves the mirror.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2003

The movie is like the low-rent, road show version of those serious drug movies where everybody is macho and deadly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

This movie is less than zero.

| Original Score: F | Apr 3, 2003

[Akerlund] has effectively created a head-spinning, flesh-crawling milieu all his own, but Spun is ultimately short on substance and long on style.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2003

Ultimately, plot complication and freneticism can't distract us from noticing that the movie has no insights, no point, no urgency and no importance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2003

Less a movie than an idea for a movie, and unfortunately it's a very bad idea for a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 28, 2003

Mistakes flash for cleverness.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2003

The Core is not the only disaster flick opening today, and it's doubtful that the folks in that movie can save the urchins on crystal meth in Spun.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 28, 2003

A great deal of energy is spent setting the thing up, bringing it off and then, post-rush, it just sort of drifts off into nowhere and goes still.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2003

Seems to exist for no reason other than to suggest that crystal-meth freaks are really scattered innocents looking for their next consciousness-raising jolt.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 27, 2003

Spun is slummishly stylish, occasionally funny, and pretty much devoid of meaning.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2003

In Spun, the nightmare never ends for the pretty young Hollywood things like Mena Suvari and Brittany Murphy who play methamphetamine dress-up with pasted-on pimples and brushed-on bruises.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 20, 2003

The lack of narrative sobriety and the director's shallow stylistic copycatting ... is the film's ultimate undoing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 19, 2003