| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 4, 2011

A head-scratching thriller...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Forster should be commended for attempting something as daunting as the overreaching Stay.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 29, 2005

In all honesty, by the time Forster and Benioff reach their conclusion (which, looking back on it, would be sort of neat if it didn't make the proceeding 90 minutes a waist of time), I had a headache so throbbing I simply didn't care.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2005

In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair.

| Oct 27, 2005

This is the kind of flop that makes even the popcorn taste lousy.

| Oct 26, 2005

There's a lot of talent at work here from the cast to the screenwriter to the director and the visuals, but it's all so arbitrary and cheap and the payoff is so, so lame.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2005

S lot of talent gets expended in Stay. (I'm not including whoever dressed McGregor.) Too bad the movie they made, while effective in short spurts, is almost a complete waste of time.

Full Review | Oct 21, 2005

It's all very deep, but in a tricked-up, art-directed sort of way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

Stay is crowded with layers and symbols, probably too many for one movie, and it ultimately wears out its welcome. But its images are compelling, even as its story fades away.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

A pretty package that's empty on the inside.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2005

Some people find this twisty and twisted psychological thriller arty and pretentious. I find it arty and provocative.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2005

Sometimes artful doesn't make up for annoying.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2005

There's no payoff as things drag along to a ludicrous ending that reeks of contempt for its audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 21, 2005

The final twist does more to unravel what's come before than to tie it all together, making what's come before feel like a cosmopolitan goose chase.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2005

Whether you guess the ending early or have it smack you upside the head, the result is the same: You'll be out the price of a ticket.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

It's hard to imagine a film more perversely obtuse than this dark, grim exercise in cinematic sleight of hand.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 21, 2005

The brain power you expend making sense of it is better spent elsewhere.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

It all leads to nowhere involving or revelatory or particularly entertaining unless you are interested in Forster's hip, eccentric tastes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 21, 2005