Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Droll and amusing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 15, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

A shallow portrait of the artist as a cad.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

It is put together so well you can believe that this human misfit with a terrible taste in tailoring, an insatiable thirst for liquor, an appalling way with women, yet with a guitar in his hand seemingly guided by angels, was a real person.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

The jazz is certainly here, but the passion is missing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The movie has ample delights.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

There is enjoyment to be had from Sweet and Lowdown.

| Jan 1, 2000

A likable, lively little ditty -- one theme, some clever variations -- that never wears out its welcome.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The movie is so confused about where it wants to go, it suffers from the same identity crisis as its protagonist.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This is one very tuneful labor of love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Emmet Ray is a fictional character, but so convincing in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown that he seems like a real chapter of jazz history we somehow overlooked.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A snappy, loose-limbed performance from Penn.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

Sweet and Lowdown is undeniably pleasant, but British actress Samantha Morton quietly explodes it: Her performance is like nothing I've seen in recent years.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The only reason to see this film is for the acting.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Great material.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000