Three actors yakking in a single drab interior, shot on HD video: It's unlikely this poverty-program recipe has, or ever will again, yield results quite as entertaining as "Tape."

Full Review | May 20, 2008

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

This makes good on that old Dogme promise by discarding the crutches of conventional movie drama and concentrating on the raw essentials of character and story.

| Jun 24, 2006

A film, which, for all its energy, never quite sparks into life.

| Apr 4, 2003

Engrossing and dynamic viewing thanks to convincing dialogue and lively acting, most notably from Hawke.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2002

If Tape's claustrophobia doesn't get to you, and if you've got the intestinal fortitude to spend nearly 90 minutes in intimate proximity with two equally unlikeable guys, the movie does exert a certain propulsive fascination.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

For the most part, Tape is smart and deftly executed, with Hawke, in particular, as the resentful Vince, making a vivid impression.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

The performances are amazingly charged and fluid.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2002

There's a place in the world of the cinema for filmed theater, especially when it's done as well as it is here.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2002

Implodes under the weight of its own 'excessive linguistic pressure.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2001

A failed experiment with arresting moments.

| Dec 7, 2001

Picture a typical student film with its arty angles, bad lighting and pretentious observations.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 5, 2001

Tape plays in real time in a cramped space, but there are a lot of surprises lurking in the corners of that room.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2001

Smart, playful, disturbing, and most of all alive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2001

Steeped in venom, deception, and manipulation, Tape is a three-way volley of mind games in which an adolescent grudge assumes the complexion of a festering wound.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 16, 2001

Basically a character study, and quite an engaging one at that.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2001

Like most movies by Linklater, it's the kind of film that doesn't usually get made -- a dramatic chamber piece for young people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 16, 2001

Perhaps because they are working out emotional conflicts from high school, and Vince seems stuck at a childish emotional level, what takes place in the room seems juvenile, despite the powerful subject matter.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2001

It's for anyone who appreciates the bitter erosion of friendship and the one-upmanship and mind games bred by festering antagonism.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2001

Tape made me believe that its events could happen to real people more or less as they appear on the screen, and that is its most difficult accomplishment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 16, 2001