Blue In The Face Critic Reviews

The film is so exuberant that we don't care whether we're listening to Lou Reed's off-the-cuff comments about New York, watching Mel Gorham do a sexy dance in front of a mirror, or hearing Jim Jarmusch's ramblings on the romance of the smoking culture.Read the full review

The improvisations are a mixed bag -- Reed and Fox are surprisingly hilarious, while Roseanne is a shrieking horror show -- but the air of gentle play and a wistful sense that Brooklyn is some kind of lost Eden put this one up on the more structured "Smoke."Read the full review

[The movie has] considerable charm and humor....Adam Holender's fresh, airy camera work and a vibrant electric score also add vitality to an all-talk film. [13 Oct 1999, p.F8]Read the full review

Good-humored, try-anything fun.Read the full review

A filmic hug for Brooklyn.Read the full review

Some of the bits work and others don't, but no one seems to be keeping score, and that's part of the movie's charm.Read the full review

A piecemeal collection of barely connected scenes and characters, stitched together with videotaped comments from a cross-section of Brooklyn residents.Read the full review

An unpredictable, occasionally amusing, wildly uneven portrait of a neighborhood struggling to hold on to its identity.Read the full review