Turturro's attempt to mix working-class magical realism and MGM romanticism is wildly uneven.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Romance & Cigarettes wears thin, like a moral for the titular addiction: Sure, there's the sweet dream of that first drag, but a whole pack'll do a body bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2008

When it succeeds, it soars with great abandon, and when it fails, it fails so grandly that we still want to applaud it. This is a madhouse of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2008

It shouldn't work, but there's something beautiful in Turturro's non-judgmental, almost affectionate, exposure of human love as the courting dance of clueless primates

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 29, 2008

No musical in the past 10 years (with the exception of Chicago) has had the courage of its convictions, and that's the whole problem.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2008

In a season seasoned with off-beat originality in the movies, from Lars and the Real Girl to I'm Not There, you still have not seen anything quite like John Turturro's extraordinary Romance and Cigarettes.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2008

The film has an overall tonal inconsistency and suffers from the occasional bout of tin-ear-itis, which ultimately derails this sometimes interesting attempt at reinvigorating the genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 58/100 | Dec 31, 2007

...you have not lived till you've seen Walken belt out a Tom Jones tune.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2007

It takes us on a unique, passionately committed journey.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007

How weird is John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes? Almost indescribably weird, though also strangely involving.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2007

John Turturro has crafted a truly unique American musical worthy of the Coen brothers' executive producer credits.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 20, 2007

Romance and Cigarettes is a dark-red valentine to the way that pop music gets under our skin.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2007

One of the most inventive, surprising and challenging American films of 2005. Pity that it's 2007.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 13, 2007

A step away from Springtime for Hitler -- a classic awful.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Dec 13, 2007

I found myself smiling with bafflement for most of the film, mostly enjoying the unorthodoxy of the whole thing.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 12, 2007

An ambitious experiment, it's not entirely successful, but it's easy to admire.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

Romance and Cigarettes is a clever idea, poorly executed.

Full Review | Dec 7, 2007

A cheerfully bizarre delight for anyone open to its decidedly off-beat charms.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2007