A good film to show to budding cinephiles? Yes, but in the end, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema falls slightly short of the monumental thesis on cinema spectatorship for which it strives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2015

Maybe the art house isn't a place for perverts anymore. Indeed, the privacy of one's own laptop seems a somewhat safer setting for Zizek's kinky act of criticism.

| Aug 24, 2009

Cinematically speaking, you my find your meeting with psychoanalyst/film theorist Slavoj Zizek to be a near-religious experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2009

Often drags and leaves you feeling underwhelmed.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 30, 2009

As a kind of Rorschach-blot interpretation of cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema contains all kinds of wicked fascinations.

| Jan 30, 2009

Impresses with four stars for part one, but then fizzles out with the gabby shrink's repetitive, often meaningless psychobabble up to the finish line. Astute analysis or personal obsession? Paging the shrink's shrink.

| Jan 17, 2009

It is a fun romp through the annals of cinema by pop Slovenian philosopher and prolific writer Slavoj Zizek, who finds deep psychological meaning in a slew of movies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2009

The teachers we remember most fondly are often the ones who entertained as they enlightened, through hyperbole seasoned with grains of salt. Mr. Zizek belongs in that company.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2009

[Zizek] steers clear of his usual dense Hegel-centric language and goes straight for the fun bits.

| Jan 14, 2009

It sounds completely mad, but it hangs together because of the brilliant, hilarious decision to insert the garrulous philosopher into key scenes of the films he discusses.

| Jan 12, 2009

The playful anti-academic stances of Slavoj Zizek have often seemed like sheep's clothing to obscure yet another post-Marxist, neo-Lacanian thinker.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2009

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

It's pretentious, arch, and often times ridiculous (as well as being philosophically incoherent, trying to sound smarter than it actually is), but it's in the end a lot of fun.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 21, 2007

What helps the film rise above the level of a photographed college lecture is the director's inventive and playful presentation.

Full Review | May 4, 2007

A delightful two-and-a-half-hour repast for mindful film junkies.

| Apr 26, 2007

If you love movies, this is a must-see.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2007

Brisk, entertaining and, yes, intense.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2006

Looking like no one so much as Ricky Tomlinson's crazed Slovenian twin brother, that unruly thinker and critic Slavoj Zizek gives us a highly entertaining and often brilliant tour of modern cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2006

While this is fun, it's hardly sprocket science.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2006

Above all The Pervert's Guide to Cinema ponders a crucial question for all film-goers: why do we continue to be emotionally affected by movies, even when we know they're fake?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2006