Roger Dodger Critic Reviews

It is Scott's work as the savagely articulate Roger, a tireless would-be seducer, bottomlessly self-confident and oblivious to rejection, that is the film's glistening and provocative centerpiece.Read the full review

Takes both its characters and the audience to the depths, but it's a journey Kidd redeems with wit and fluency and, ultimately, a deeply persistent humanism.Read the full review

Kidd, a first-time writer and director, has created a sophisticated but intriguingly toxic comedy of manners.Read the full review

One of the juiciest male characters to pop up in an independent film this year.Read the full review

Mines laughs from the ways in which its antihero's reductive philosophy consistently goes kerflooey in his face, but there's a weary sadness to it as well.Read the full review

A little too programmed in its despair, but it coasts along on the jagged music of the modern lothario's song.Read the full review

All three performances are excellent, in their different ways.Read the full review

The final third is slower until a somewhat contrived finale that's still the funniest thing in the movie.Read the full review

The movie, written and directed by Dylan Kidd, depends on its dialogue, and like a film by David Mamet or Neil LaBute has characters who use speech like an instrument. The screenplay would be entertaining just to read, as so very few are.Read the full review