Jonathan Parker's art spoof is witty and sharply observed, and makes good use of its talented leads...

| Jun 18, 2020

Writer-director Jonathan Parker sets us up for a 90-minute debate on aesthetics and artistic integrity, and that's a tedious exercise in any medium.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jul 4, 2010

Skewers the world of contemporary art in a way that's insightful and funny without becoming a broad parody.

| Original Score: B | Nov 21, 2009

...spry and spiky satire...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2009

The characters...are wrapped up in their own perceptions of their greatness and are an odious lot. This is fitting for the film but leaves the viewer without a character to like.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 13, 2009

The impenetrable gallery jargon is quite funny at first, and the brothers' twisted relationship is set up nicely, but the movie errs when it takes itself seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 12, 2009

(Untitled) asks a lot of intriguing questions -- more intriguing than the film itself.

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

A serious comedy in which the assorted players - a couple of artists, some gallerists, and the people who attend (or don't attend) their shows - discuss what art is, what it should aspire to be, and what kind of people collect, exhibit, and consider it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2009

Right away, you wonder if the filmmakers are trying hard enough.

| Original Score: C | Nov 12, 2009

Woody Allen might have passed on making this film 35 years ago because it was too dated and middlebrow.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 12, 2009

A very funny and on-the-nose takedown of artsy pretension.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2009

Art School Confidential goes for its doctorate in Jonathan Parker's bitchy, hilarious (Untitled), the story of two pretentious brothers jealously jousting with each other in the dog-eat-dog world of fine-art cred.

| Nov 11, 2009

...starts to feel like a one trick pony.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 8, 2009

The performances here are all stellar, and narrative movies that take the making of art seriously are a rare breed indeed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Those who don't know art but who know what they like are likely to come away from "(Untitled)" thinking "Gee, I could have done that."

| Nov 6, 2009

Has the punctuation and the thinness of a gallery wall label.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2009

It's a testament to the movie's keen script that, until a disjointed final act, we're able to both laugh at these characters and sympathize with them.

| Original Score: B | Nov 5, 2009

It doesn't have a hero who's right and everyone else is wrong. And though it mocks every character, it dismisses nobody. It makes a case for every point of view, including those the filmmakers don't share.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 5, 2009

(Untitled) is a comedy worthy of the best Woody Allen, and Adrian is not unlike Woody's persona: a sincere, intense, insecure nebbish, hopeless with women, aiming for greatness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2009

Egos, etiquette, and envy go a long way in this atypical comedy of manners.

| Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2009