Its trickery might seem cute or clever to viewers who don't take either movies or people very seriously, but to me it recalled cynical "puzzle" films like Memento and Irreversible, with no reason to exist apart from its gimmick.

Full Review | Feb 5, 2018

You watch the screen in disbelief and amazement that any aspiring auteur could so willfully undermine his own project this way.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2007

...benefits greatly from the inclusion of a thoroughly unpredictable third-act twist...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 29, 2006

Dot the I is okay-ish until it drops one of those Sixth Sense-style plot twists which negates everything that has gone before it into audiences' laps . . .

Full Review | Apr 28, 2006

As much as it tries to be a smart, postmodern indie film, dot the i is pure Hollywood fluff.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 18, 2005

The term 'terrible' not only describes what happens to the characters, it also describes the brain-numbing sensation of having to sit through this movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 23, 2005

The movie stops being about [its characters] - and starts being about the ways writer-director Matthew Parkhill can screw with your head.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2005

So in love with its own inventions and convolutions that it ignores all plausibility and audience acceptance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2005

But despite its trickery, dot the i lacks emotional resonance that would elevate it above the banal.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2005

Parkhill tries to keep new blood pulsing through the film, but the movie stalls by its third act, where he plays a trick that seems more desperate than fresh.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 2005

"Dot the I" wants to join the ranks of "Memento" and "The Usual Suspects," films that reward multiple viewings, but it's so ridiculous that it doesn't sustain a first.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 9, 2005

Once the effect of the second act's gimmick wears off, you find yourself growing more and more annoyed at the improbability of the entire setup.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 31, 2005

A curious mélange that works more often than not.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | May 20, 2005

A weird, pretty film with a dumb script, a skilled cast and a good twist, plus one hot sex scene and one brilliant scene-chew by D'Arcy.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 20, 2005

Take a long, hard look at Parkhill's film, and you'll find too many i's undotted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2005

While stylishly done, Parkhill's script isn't nearly as clever as he thinks it is, and the sucker punch near the end lacks, well, punch.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Apr 28, 2005

If you find dense, self-conscious mystification decorated with all kinds of fashionable postmodern gimmicks more than a bit annoying, best to look elsewhere.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2005

Even when you don't believe what Bernal and the effervescent Verbeke are doing, it's fun to watch them do it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2005

the film becomes entirely meta-fictional and I simply gave up caring

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2005

Cross 'Dot The I' off your viewing list...crosses the boundary of implausibility so often and so blatantly that it winds up being absolutely laughable.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Apr 16, 2005