The question is, could someone turn these full-frontal-dudity snapshots into a satisfying, cohesive movie? Answer: no, but not for lack of trying.
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09/23/09
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:12
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Ambitious but uneven, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men tries hard but doesn't match the depth of the book.
Synopsis: Based on the book by David Foster Wallace, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN is a darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women. Sara Quinn is... [More]
Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, Josh Charles
Director: John Krasinski
Reviews for Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Will surely allow you to see John Krasinski in a different light, both as a filmmaker and as a dramatic actor.
09/22/09
Brief Interviews is interesting in pieces, but overwhelming in its totality.
09/21/09
John Krasinski’s adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s ... Brief Interviews With Hideous Men works only in spurts, but when it does, it’s enough to remind us how much deeper our dramatists could drill -- and of the magnitude of Wallace’s loss.
09/21/09
The most impressive thing about Krasinski's direction is his self-assured ability to know when it's time to mix in visual elements, and when it's best to simply point a camera at a good storyteller and let the actor speak.
08/03/09
An uneven, intriguing adaptation of David Foster Wallace's book of short stories, the film and its bits-and-pieces structure ultimately don't add up to as much as hoped.
05/09/09
Fails for all the reasons you'd expect it to fail.
02/25/09
Feels like 25 very brief stage plays jammed together -- maybe five of which are worth sitting through.
02/02/09
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is a noble failure of a film that's worth a lot more than many of the safer if more achieved works premiering beside it at Sundance 2009.
01/28/09
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