Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Critic Reviews

Because their work is so varied, the director Winterbottom and Boyce, his frequent writer, are only now coming into focus as perhaps the most creative team in British film.Read the full review

The first great, mind-tickling treat of the new movie year.Read the full review

This is not just a movie-within-a-movie, but a movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie, something that sounds unbearably arch but that is swift, funny and surprisingly unpretentious.Read the full review

The movie's still a wickedly droll put-on. Better yet, beneath the fun lurks a dry and weary sigh at life's refusal to match the tidiness of art.Read the full review

The trouble with describing a story this complex and digressive is that it's hard to keep it from sounding complicated and hard-to-follow. But for a movie about movies, it's surprisingly humanistic, cheerful and true to life.Read the full review

It's pretty funny. You don't actually watch it so much as indulge it and admire its cleverness.Read the full review

The result is a movie more concerned with movie-making than with the stuff of Sterne's great book, but a movie that's good for lots of laughs if you share its fondness for actors and for fatuous actors' banter, which I do.Read the full review

Has about a dozen layers of in-joke, and up to the eighth or ninth layer, they mostly work.Read the full review

A highly amusing combination period film and mockumentary.Read the full review