Realistic other-worldness is a challenge, especially in a live action film...Wristcutters: A Love Story couldn't quite pull it off...

| Mar 4, 2020

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 9, 2011

This road movie romcom won’t leave you reaching for the razor blades.

| Oct 11, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Having some laughs over suicide.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 10, 2008

Wristcutters: A Love Story is like a suicidal Wizard of Oz.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2008

It's certainly melancholic, occasionally funny, and ultimately life-affirming. But overall, it feels as if writer-director Goran Dukic dropped a rather promising ball.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2008

It misses the opportunity to examine why a community of people - each of whom has already given up on life - would band together to form a new society of desperate misfits.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 22, 2008

It is a staggeringly awful road movie, not much enlivened by the presence of Tom Waits as a wizened participant.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 23, 2007

The purgatorial premise is pleasingly eccentric but, in the end, Wristcutters falls victim to its washed-out mood, and limps bloodlessly to a close.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

A dreary, self-consciously quirky indie flick that seems to go on forever, despite an economical running time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Veering from witty to occasionally trite, Wristcutters: A Love Story has plenty of originality on its side, but never manages to be more than the sum of its self-consciously quirky parts.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 23, 2007

A little self-consciously kooky but with an ace soundtrack that combines gypsy punksters Gogol Bordello with real-life plug-pullers this sure beats putting your head in the oven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Dark subject matter, but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and determinedly optimistic about life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

For the better part of the journey this a bizarrely uplifting yarn - razor sharp, you might say.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Opportunities to comment on the ethical grey areas of suicide are mostly squandered and, as the pointless digressions begin to pile up, your mind begins to drift from the action on screen.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 22, 2007

Enjoyably quirky black comedy that's clearly destined to become a cult movie amongst the Gothic contingent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2007

Despite being occasionally hilarious, director Goran Dukic should have toned down the wackiness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2007

Another indie director more interested in style than substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2007