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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Smart and edgy. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Badly organized and self-indulgent. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Ms. Leigh and Mr. Cumming's screenplay does an amazing job of creating about a dozen fully rounded, nuanced characters with a minimum of words. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: What distinguishes The Anniversary Party from the movies/lives that inspired it is the dead-on quality of much of the writing and acting. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: I had a hard time maintaining interest in (let along liking) any of these self-involved Hollywood twerps. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh's Hollywood tale is set apart by its truthfulness. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The film has a marvelous cast, and everyone is in fine form. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: A textbook example of why actors sometimes should just act. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Genial enough if unrefined. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The best thing that one can say about The Anniversary Party is that it raises more questions about its central characters than it can possibly answer -- which may weaken it as a drama but not as a search for truth. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Too formlessly turgid. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A cool and intelligent look at a lifestyle where smart people are required to lead their lives according to dumb rules. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: If digital looks like this and makes it possible for such funny and intimate chamber pieces to come into existence, then bring on the digital movies. Read more
Amy Taubin, Village Voice: An exercise in what it critiques -- the self-involvement and self-dramatization of performers. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A classic guilty pleasure. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The result is something like being stuck at an audition for someone else's play, which you haven't read, won't invest in, and don't care too much about. Read more