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Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 14
Rotten:38
Average Rating: 4/10
Consensus: Filth and Wisdom, while certainly ambitious, is mostly unconvincing and incoherent.
Theatrical Release: Oct 17, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Madonna's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, is a hilariously sexy tale of three roommates who must delve into mischievous and naughty behavior in pursuit of bigger and brighter futures. A Ukrainian immigrant, A.K. (Eugene Hutz),... [More]
Starring: Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E. Grant
Director: Madonna
Either Madonna failed to successfully guide her movie to a coherent state of mind or she simply has no gift for filmmaking. A case could be made for both, though the latter is an awfully tempting summarization of Filth and Wisdom.
This is a terrible, terrible worthless movie that you shouldn’t give any time to.
I'm confident the material girl has more good material for movies ahead of her.
If this were the first film of a 17-year-old who got a camcorder for his birthday...it could be called a promising first effort.
It's sweeter and sunnier than its material suggests, but not smarter.
Top Critic Imagine having a philosophical discussion with Madonna. I imagine it would be like having one with any other high school dropout.
Top Critic Madonna's directing debut shows that the megastar did not learn a lot about film craft and creates a routine, occasional amusing debut oeuvre. It should have been a more mature work and it is not.
Message to the director: Don’t quit your day job just yet, but in the category of multidisciplinary artists moonlighting as filmmakers, I’ll take you over Julian Schnabel any day.
As Bart Simpson once said of NAKED LUNCH, I can think of two things wrong with this title.
Curiosity-seekers may trickle in, but despite the deliberate move to release the flick unrated, there's nothing in here to merit a raised eyebrow.
At 83 minutes, it's tedious, pretentious, and just plain boring. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing does.
Top Critic This is a movie that's just sort of there, and nobody much would have paid any attention to it without the Madonna connection. And chances are nobody much will even with that connection.
Top Critic For an artist who has spent so much of her career reinventing herself to lead pop culture, not to mention fatten her pocketbook, Madonna seems at her most sincere behind this camera. She coaxes genuine moments from the three principals.
Top Critic Madonna has made a career out of toying with image and ego, but this is a vanity project in the smallest sense possible.
Top Critic Madonna shoots it all like a home movie made by someone who has been on the other side of the camera so often, doing music videos, reality no longer feels remotely real.
Top Critic It may be the single most disastrous film perpetrated by a musical icon since Paul McCartney made "Give My Regards to Broad Street."
October 05, 2008:
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April 17, 2008:
IFC grabs Madonna's Filth and Wisdom
IFC has secured North American rights to Madonna's directorial debut, "Filth and Wisdom." More...
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