What was missed amid all the Ecclesiastical accusations of vanity was Gallo's bold exploration of a damaged male psyche.

| Jan 6, 2021

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

For all its anti-action, The Brown Bunny gets its teeth in you and shakes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 19, 2004

A passable, if often dreary, evocation of those '70s road movies in which disillusioned young men (and the occasional woman) took to the highway in search of America, the meaning of things or maybe just a hamburger.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2004

What plays for 80 minutes like an intolerable, self-indulgent road trip largely redeems itself in the last 10 minutes, through a moving explanation of the anti-hero's catatonic depression.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2004

Must be one of the truest songs of roadside America that the movies have produced.

| Sep 18, 2004

Narcissisistic, self-indulgent, solipsistic claptrap is still narcissistic, self-indulgent, solipsistic claptrap, no matter how long or short.

| Original Score: D | Sep 16, 2004

I don't know that I've ever encountered a filmmaker who wants to be loved so badly on his own wheedling, whiny, abrasive, motherless, misogynistic, and -- last but not least -- non-narrative terms.

| Sep 15, 2004

At 20 minutes, The Brown Bunny might be a lovely, '70s-flavored short. But at its current length, the film often feels as if someone set up a camera and then wandered off, forgetting about it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Less a story of undying love and passion than a singularly focused lovefest. And it's a self-lovefest, really, no matter who the flower girl is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2004

It's not really a movie. I suppose it's what could be called a recorded behavior.

| Sep 10, 2004

Luckily, Sevigny has a promising future before her, and this bizarre little diversion will soon scamper into the wild grass, never to be seen again.

| Sep 10, 2004

Much like Bruno Dumont's equally provocative Twentynine Palms, Gallo's peculiarly earnest film ultimately questions the nature of cinema, that continuum of reality and illusion that starts when the theater dims and the screen lights up.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 9, 2004

One of those movies that work retrospectively: the final scene pulls the film together.

Full Review | Sep 7, 2004

Can have a relatively sophisticated visual sense and yet in other respects seem like a teenager's first short story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2004

It's a somber poem of a film sure to frustrate those who prefer resolution to ambiguity. Controversial hype aside, that indeterminacy is its primary draw.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2004

The Cannes version was a bad film, but now Gallo's editing has set free the good film inside.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2004

Rarely has narcissism produced such a handsome work of cinema.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2004

Hypnotic and unforgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2004

The kind of fascinatingly bad film only a really gifted and fearless moviemaker could make.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 2, 2004