The film is an innocent love song to the movies and all its crazy quirks. The Hollywood dream lives on proudly in The Disaster Artist.

| Dec 5, 2023

Disaster Artist is a one-joke movie, and that joke is a person, but it’s a very good joke abetted by a very good supporting cast (including Seth Rogen doing his spot-on thing) and the fringe period details...

| Jan 11, 2023

Capturing the same balance of admiration, mockery, and craft as Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994), Franco's film pays homage to a cinematic rarity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2022

The Disaster Artist is nothing short of a beautiful disaster. A film that puts a spotlight on two men who shared a bond that led the greatest bad film of all time to be made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

It overflows with optimism and support for those who do whatever it takes to make their dreams come true.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 29, 2021

What's the inherent value of making a movie like this?

| Jul 20, 2021

One of the worst ever films is the subject of one of 2017's best.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2021

The new film is a love letter to the movies and how they are the stuff dreams are made of.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Franco recreates The Room's hopeless ineptitude, with spot-on re-enactments of some of its most notoriously dire scenes. But the big surprise is that the decidedly odd, bromantic friendship at the movie's heart should prove so touching.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2020

Whatever the real truth is, this ride is full of laughs.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 5, 2020

The Disaster Artist truly captures how the struggle for success shaped 'The Room,' the infamous disaster film we've come to love.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 2, 2020

It's a film about the making of the film and the cult of personality that turned that otherwise disastrous film into an unexpected money maker.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

...unfortunately, The Disaster Artist is also something of a vanity project for Franco, and a bit too much of an in-joke.

| Aug 27, 2020

It's not enough to glean any real insight, but it's just enough to entertain.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

The Disaster Artist is a fascinating character study of a delusional obsessive...it's not so much about the making of this cult film as it is about following your passions, no matter what, and accepting where that path leads you.

| Jul 17, 2020

An oddball love letter to movies, a fascinating crowd-pleaser, and a surprisingly sweet story of passion and friendship.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2020

[T]he decision to film Disaster as a comedy relegates the characters' moral objections to fodder for the funnies.

| Jun 30, 2020

The audacity of Wiseau carries the film for a bit, but we never get his full background or how he got a cool 6 mill for such an inert, softcore bore.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 22, 2020

t's an underdog story that ultimately has the last laugh, given we're watching James Franco recreate Tommy's life for a film that has become the dark horse this awards season.

| May 29, 2020

If you've never seen The Room, don't try to figure out the phenomenon; simply enjoy witnessing the [creation] of it. And if you are, in fact, a Room devotee, prepare to laugh harder than you have ever laughed in your life.

| May 20, 2020