| Original Score: C+ | May 6, 2011

It's a pungent film about Hollywood power and a useful manual for young producers on how to stay upright in Hollywood or at least, how to lose your soul with grace.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 24, 2009

What Just Happened, despite an air of crisis, feels sluggish and plodding.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 21, 2009

I don't think it's particularly funny and I think that's the problem with the film. I think it wants to be funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2009

A playful industry satire made by victors. That's actually pretty cold when you think about it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008

A film that feels every bit the product of its purportedly ruthless and artistically corrupting milieu.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Nov 28, 2008

The crisp and merciless ribbing of De Niro in What Just Happened? is a worthy rival. It's also great fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Well, what happened is that one of the smartest Hollywood memoirs of recent times just got made into a rather disappointing film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Pure razzle-dazzle, of course - fittingly for this industry, it's a con-trick.

| Nov 28, 2008

Gags crash, timings tailspin, and celebrity guest stars (Bruce Willis, Sean Penn) wear the look that says, "I think we've come to the wrong party."

| Nov 28, 2008

Levinson keeps the pace sharp, and at moments you get an acute sense of the crushing weight of ego and money.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Robert De Niro is thankfully back in 'funny' mode for this enjoyable, if oddly pointless, Hollywood-eatsitself comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008

More cold than cute, De Niro's brilliance actually makes the film more confusing than it needs to be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

In some ways, What Just Happened feels like an attempt to, if not make amends for moviemaking myopia, at least show how easily the contagion takes hold.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2008

What Just Happened? is just a plain clumsy movie.

| Original Score: D | Oct 31, 2008

What Just Happened? has already happened and, to everyone but Levinson, that shouldn't be surprising.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2008

The sharpest Hollywood satire since The Player.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 31, 2008

You'd probably need a veteran Hollywood psychiatrist to explain Tinseltown's fascination with its own muck.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2008

There are cutting laughs along the way, and Keener plays the hard-nosed studio chief with an insider's acumen, but, really, Entourage is better than this.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2008

This satire is a perfect sendup of Hollywood with a marvelous cast, including De Niro in his best performance in years.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 20, 2008