Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Critic Reviews
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One hell of a date movie. A surgical examination of the male psyche based on David Foster Wallace's book and written and directed by John Krasinski, there is plenty of food for thought and argument.Read the full review
Raises the question of whether Krasinski made this movie because he really loves Wallace’s work, or because just he wanted to show Hollywood that the loveable doof from The Office can actually act.Read the full review
At times, the movie could have been called "Me and You and Every One of the Bastards We Know," but Krasinski preserves Wallace's whooshing roller coasters of words, powered by the fuel of confession.Read the full review
An insightful, sharply written and unsettlingly amusing exploration of the darker elements of masculinity.Read the full review
If we learn nothing else about Krasinski as a filmmaker, it’s that he thinks more is more.Read the full review
The film is intelligent, well crafted and often funny, but it may not sufficiently reward even the brief time it asks one to spend with such hideous men.Read the full review
It's a very academic movie about academics that belongs in academia, not movie theaters.Read the full review
Compacted into an 80-minute mishmash of interviews, confessions and sketches, melded into a shaky mosaic, the answers from a cross section of men are shallow, self-serving and ultimately unenlightening.Read the full review
