The urgency of the tales gets lost along the way, weighed down by staginess and an inconsistent tone, although Krasinski's ambition suggests a noble failure.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2019

[Brief Interviews] is within the limits of the medium, a rigorous record of the process of thought.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2015

...far more successful as an actor's showcase than as a fully-realized movie...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 9, 2011

Intense look at gender and relationships is best for adults.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2010

Faced with the unenviable choice between honoring his daunting inspiration and telling his own story, the director shoots straight down the middle -- and misses both targets.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 4, 2010

John Krasinski takes a distinct, deliberate step away from romantic comedies for a darkly comic look at human interaction.

Full Review | Mar 25, 2010

Everywhere this poor lady tries to go, there's always a guy or two loudly performing a David Foster Wallace monologue within earshot.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2010

Painfully pretentious and shallow.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 30, 2009

Krasinski re-creates the interviews using Wallace's original, but this isn't exactly a letter-of-the-law adaptation -- he tightens the interviews and defangs some of the language.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2009

Offers is the opportunity for a bunch of actors, many of them tethered to TV series, to deliver theatrical monologues pulsing with misogyny and narcissism. It's like second-rate Neil Labute.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 12, 2009

The place where consciousness runs into itself is where this author reigned supreme, and Krasinski brings Wallace's concentric, self-aware ironies to the screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2009

The movie provides more questions than answers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2009

A haunting exploration into men's minds that becomes too much of a psychological study to qualify as accessible entertainment for most.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 12, 2009

I worry that this film is static enough and stiff enough that it's going to keep people away from discovering David Foster Wallace if they haven't read him.

Full Review | Sep 28, 2009

Tthough this experiment doesn't quite succeed, there's enough intelligence and insight in this movie to make it worth the attempt.

Full Review | Sep 28, 2009

[Krasinski's] generosity of intent is really the main impression that remains. He read, he loved, and unfortunately, he did not conquer.

Full Review | Sep 28, 2009

Too awkward, disjointed and bland while lacking dramatic momentum and true insight.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.25/10 | Sep 27, 2009

Actor John Krasinski deserves credit for having the ambition to adapt material as difficult as David Foster Wallace's short stories.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2009

Krasinski literalizes Wallace's stylistic love of asides too much, but it helps that he's aware enough of his movie's limitations to keep Brief Interviews blessedly short.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 25, 2009

Everyone speaks in the sweatily polysyllabic, Look-at-This-Writing-I'm-Doing tone that makes a page of Wallace pass like an hour on the treadmill, and the men are dopes or creeps.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2009