The Anniversary Party Critic Reviews
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A caustic comedy of Hollywood manners.Read the full review
Although the movie -- falls occasional prey to pretension, it's a classic guilty pleasure.Read the full review
Despite its shortcomings, this smart, caustic movie is easily the most incisive and realistic comedy of manners to emerge from Hollywood in quite a while, and that's saying a lot.Read the full review
What makes The Anniversary Party intriguing is how close it cuts to the bone of reality--how we're teased to draw parallels between some of the characters and the actors who play them.Read the full review
Cumming and Leigh -- bring to their stylish, incisive and compassionate film an immediacy and a bracing snap.Read the full review
They turn what could have been an acting stunt into an intimate and compelling study of bruised emotions.Read the full review
Isn't what you'd call a probing film, but it's a slick and savvy one.Read the full review
As a work of art, the movie, shot quickly on digital video, is genial enough if unrefined.Read the full review
A celebration of the actor's art – but not the dramatist's.Read the full review
If one of its points is to show that underused thirtyish actresses still are attractive, it succeeds with Leigh and Cates -- and Jennifer Beals, who also provides a flashback feeling playing Cummings' ex-squeeze.Read the full review
