Tom DiCillo’s Delirious, from his own screenplay, presents a paparazzo’s worm’s-eye view of the ridiculous world of celebrity culture.
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09/05/07
Delirious (2007)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:46
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: A funny, energetic satire of the paparazzi life and the entertainment industry, Delirious is another winner for indie helmer Tom DiCillo.
Synopsis: Director Tom DiCillo scrutinizes the entertainment industry once again (see also: LIVING IN OBLIVION and THE REAL BLONDE) with DELIRIOUS. The film stars Steve Buscemi as a scuzzy New York... [More]
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman, Gina Gershon
Director: Tom DiCillo
Reviews for Delirious
Delirious, by writer-director Tom DiCillo, has a special quality because it does not make paparazzi a target but a subject.
08/31/07
Top Critic...it depends so consistently on plot contrivances and other movies (The King of Comedy,Midnight Cowboy, even All About Eve) that it often comes across as wannabe muckraking.
08/31/07
Someday, far in the future, a team of archeologists will dig up the black, wizened, still beating heart of New York City, and it will look exactly like Steve Buscemi.
08/31/07
A prickly look at the poisonous nature of celebrity and the unsavory subculture it breeds around the edges.
08/30/07
DiCillo gets at how celebrity culture can erode a person's dignity and self-worth, and Buscemi's performance strikes just the right note between unctuous bottom-feeder and loveable loser. It's unfortunate that the rest of the movie tends to get too glib.
08/25/07
It would be nice to see a sharp, funny, penetrating satire of the new, kicked-up culture of empty media fame, but Tom DiCillo's scattershot buddy movie Delirious isn't it.
08/22/07
There are some hilarious scenes here, and some moments so sad they’ll make you wince.
08/20/07
Top CriticA lark, a fairy tale, a tantalizing mix between John Scheslinger's much darker Midnight Cowboy and John Water's ultra sweet Pecker.
08/20/07
Short, sharp snapshot about celebrity and life on the fringe has nothing new to say, but it says it with considerable charm and affection.
08/17/07
At once chaotic, moody, outrageous, ridiculous and deeply tragic, Delirious reaches way beyond Buscemi's wacko rabbit hole excursion into the fetid, goofy shallow heart of celebrity glitz.
08/17/07
Delirious is a funny, insightful, entertaining poke at celebrity culture that lands quite a few notches above the typical, New York-set ensemble indie.
08/17/07
Buscemi makes this pathetic and potentially lethal shutterbug a figure of surprising humor and compassion.
08/17/07
It's an achingly funny film that is also a little sad around the edges.
08/16/07
Top CriticThe film's got some good, amusing moments and, perhaps, an insight or two into hanger-on psychology.
08/16/07
Too many different stories are vying for attention here, and none of them are very good.
08/16/07
There's enough retro modern social satire here to support the comical efforts of a talented cast adding layers of emotional nuance. Alison Lohman ("White Oleander") remains a rising star with yet another inspired performance that surprises and charms.
08/16/07
Delirious, is among DiCillo's best, and returns to the central theme of his career: the elusive and destructive nature of fame.
08/16/07
The caricatures of Hollywood sycophants and media scumbags are obvious and painfully unfunny, while the life lessons about friendship feel as if they’ve been lifted from a Hallmark card. Delirious? Not quite. Delusional? Most definitely.
08/16/07
In the end, I don't know that Delirious has all that much to say about the fame game, but you'll laugh nonetheless.
08/15/07
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