Smiley Face 2007

New York Magazine/Vulture: Basically a sketch padded out to feature length, the film constantly hovers on the edge between amiable and annoying. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: It's a fittingly loose, shambling little nothing of a comedy that's occasionally inspired, but at least a draft or two short of its potential. Still, it's a pleasure to watch Faris wander slack-jawed through a surreal day in Los Angeles. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: An unabashed valentine to Anna Faris, an opportunity for the actress to show that she can carry a movie composed of often hilarious nonstop misadventures. Read more

L.A. Weekly: It's a blast. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: One shudders to think what Smiley Face might have been with someone like Paris Hilton in the role. But Faris has this character -- a bright, sweet college graduate with a temporarily incapacitated brain -- down perfect. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Gregg Araki's latest foray into the slacker underbelly of suburban L.A., Smiley Face, has a wonderful performance by Anna Faris and one of the all-time great stoner monologues in movie history. Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: In Faris, pic has a comedienne with the ability to wring endless variations on a limited theme (the 'I'm-so-baked' one) and she pretty much single-handedly compensates for anything lacking. Read more

Nathan Lee, Village Voice: Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventh-hour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's Nowhere, and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn. Read more