No Such Thing Critic Reviews

More abrasively quirky than a lesser Bjork B-side, though the hideous monster who co-stars hails from Iceland, too.Read the full review

The movie is not exactly an upper, but Hartley fans won't want to miss the latest creation of this consistently intelligent director.Read the full review

Deadly dull in stretches, and just plain embarrassing in others.Read the full review

Burke's face is impressively scaly, his head is adorned with shorn horns. He makes a great monster. If only he had a better movie to growl in!Read the full review

An uneasy mixture of tragedy, satire, monster yarn and David Cronenberg creepiness, No Such Thing can't decide what it wants to be or how it needs to get there.Read the full review

Hartley's most ambitious film, but it's also among his most uneven, shifting away at moments when its characters should be allowed to connect, underemphasizing some themes, overemphasizing others, and letting a general clash of ideas stand in for momentum.Read the full review

Not everyone, for sure, is going to be able or willing to go the distance in this ambitious but exceedingly offbeat epic, which is great-looking and has a sweeping romantic score by Hartley himself.Read the full review

Hartley is trapped between sincerity and mock sincerity, and that all but dooms a filmmaker to slipping through the cracks.Read the full review

Does he (Hartley) succeed? Not with a movie this plodding, peevish and gimmicky. Is it fun to watch him try? Me, I'll take failed ambition over hack efficiency any day.Read the full review