Tape Critic Reviews

Linklater has hardly been a slacker this year. I'll take the tricky confrontational babble of Tape over some of the gauzier soliloquies in ''Waking Life,'' but either way, he's a filmmaker in love with the music of talk, and let's bless him for that.Read the full review

Emphasis on its combustible emotions, suspense and surprising humor should help draw sophisticated audiences who, once lured, will quickly find themselves hooked for the duration.Read the full review

Smart, unpredictable, and alive with the energies of actors who clearly are enjoying being stretched by their material.Read the full review

The writing, acting and direction are so convincing that at some point I stopped thinking about the constraints and started thinking about the movie's freedoms.Read the full review

Thoroughly engrossing.Read the full review

In portraying this threesome, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman give the most psychologically acute performances of their film careers.Read the full review

No wonder Hawke was so hot to pass the script onto Linklater. He's superb, by the way.Read the full review

Hawke is the movie's revelation.Read the full review

The smart but slight film implodes under the weight of its own "excessive linguistic pressure."Read the full review