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08/12/05
The Next Big Thing (2001)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:7
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4.9/10
Synopsis: Chris Eigeman stars in this engaging comedy as Gus, a young artist tired of starving and desperate to make a name for himself in Manhattan. His dream almost comes true one morning when he takes his... [More]
Starring: Chris Eigeman, Jamie Harris, Connie Britton, Marin Hinkle
Director: P.J. Posner
Reviews for The Next Big Thing
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12/08/02
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11/25/02
The female characters, with the exception of Britton, tend toward vulgar and the men register at various degrees of obnoxiousness.
09/09/02
An amusing, light-hearted satire of a Manhattan art world.
08/23/02
The send-up here is relatively weak
08/23/02
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06/14/02
A feeble and tedious satire on the New York art scene.
06/14/02
Top CriticIrritatingly cutesy and self-satisfied on top of it all, making the picture something of an endurance test besides being a misfire.
06/13/02
[Eigeman's] driving insistence to reach some meaningful point with his Gus pushes The Next Big Thing into otherwise undeserved success.
06/10/02
Squandering a potentially juicy subject for ridicule, the film simply doesn't have the wit necessary to do it justice, relying instead on obvious jokes and stereotypical characterizations.
06/03/02
Hardly the next big thing to hit theaters.
05/31/02
The sweet romantic comedy overwhelms the satirical bitterness, producing a fluffy, pleasant, instantly forgettable picture that feels more than a little behind the times.
05/30/02
A deftly satisfying, comically coherent sendup of the world of art.
05/29/02
Top CriticThe concept is simple, even irresistible, but Posner's dishearteningly unsophisticated treatment itself rings false.
05/28/02
Set amongst the spoiled and the starving in New York, The Next Big Thing pits artistic intelligence against a pleasantly simple love story
05/28/02
A clever, amusing parody of the New York art scene that's about something much bigger.
05/16/02
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