Balancing wit with authenticity, Perry permeates each of his entries with an ethos of bourgeois malaise that he sketches with both mockery and sympathy.

| Mar 25, 2024

Alex Ross Perry has defined himself as one of the more exciting new directors with The Color Wheel.

| Original Score: 8.1/10 | Jun 29, 2019

Perry's film proves he's a unique voice in the American independent scene, and his latest film should give you something to smirk about.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2019

Altman and Perry manage a teasing banter that's true to most brother-sister relationships, while also hinting at an additional edge.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2014

"The Color Wheel" turns up more annoyance than laughter.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 22, 2014

Alex Ross Perry's The Color Wheel begins as a scrappy, antagonistically funny road comedy and ends as something altogether stranger.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2012

The Color Wheel requires a brand of empathy mainstream audiences are unaccustomed to, but rewards it with nearly revolutionary insight.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2012

It's so rare to see something this scathing and sweet and strange that I have to recommend it enthusiastically.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2012

"The Color Wheel" partially recalls the scathing audacity of "The Graduate" some 45 years ago.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2012

The film's out-of-nowhere shock value conclusion suggests that Perry and Altman were really at a loss as to how to tie everything up.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 2, 2012

You might not "like" Perry's movie, but it's hard to deny the forensically assured sensibility at work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2012

Hard to swallow but impossible to ignore.

| Jun 7, 2012

Perry and co-writer/star Carlen Altman are Colin and J.R., the most loathsomely lovable brother-sister duo in the history of cinema.

| Jun 7, 2012

The most entertaining unpleasant film I've seen in years.

| Jun 7, 2012

A deceptively shambling, post-mumblecore road trip through dark comic territory.

| Jun 7, 2012

The result is a thorough examination of a generation-specific collective anxiety about doing anything, and of whether it's possible (or even worthwhile) to try to redeem oneself in a world gone ornery.

| Jun 7, 2012

Perry directs these uproarious rapid-fire flareups with exquisite comic timing and incisive comic framing.

| Jun 7, 2012

It's a defiant, uncompromising statement in every way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2012

We're no doubt intended to find a relationship between the climax and the darkly comic misadventures that make up most of the film, but Perry declines to connect the dots for us.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 31, 2012

There's handmade and then there's amateurish. This, alas, is the latter.

| Original Score: C | May 31, 2012