| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2003

Tuvalu is like watching a Dali painting brought to life...and who wouldn't want to see that?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2003

Intriguing but ultimately irritating misfire.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Ultimately a rewarding -- if weird -- experience. It's just too bad that it takes so long to get there.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Fetishistic in its bemusement with gadgetry and painstaking in its slapstick-meets-high-emotion construction... Tuvalu is a decently engaging high farce, even if its influences are roundly on display.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 23, 2002

A fascinating work that never quite coalesces, Tuvalu finally becomes oppressively repetitive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 20, 2002

The film is relentlessly arty and much too stylistically bizarre for mainstream taste ... But it has its own peculiar charm.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 19, 2002

Tuvalu is astounding. It is also bizarre, challenging, and, at times, admirably overreaching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 31, 2002

...give this wonderful, funny, clever little flick a try.

| Original Score: A- | May 21, 2002

Emil Christov's stunningly clear black and white cinematography presents images from another time, like a neo-Guy Maddin flick.

| Original Score: B+ | May 17, 2002

They used to be called moving pictures, and the captivating Tuvalu reminds us why.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2002

Recommended for its singular vision -- a concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 3, 2002

Charming and a little tiresome.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 8, 2002

This one-of-a kind charmer casts an immediate and delightful spell.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2002

Helmer's film is easy to enjoy as a mere romp, though it also can be read as a very thinly veiled allegory about post-Soviet Europe.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2002

A gorgeous cough syrup hallucination -- the kind of beautiful, feverish dream to which you succumb while eardrum-piercingly high on over-the-counter cold medicine.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Jan 29, 2002

A disappointment, a precious and grotesque exercise reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen, only less amusing.

| Dec 14, 2001

A film this bizarre and spectacular can't be entirely written off.

| Dec 14, 2001

Still in the mood for something offbeat and phantasmagoric? Check out this charming German import by Veit Helmer.

Full Review | Dec 13, 2001