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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh Page   1   D- "A thin slice of a not-very-interesting nothing... The book they said was unfilmable turns out to be a film that is unwatchable."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna 3.5/5 "layered absurdist humor abounds within its wonderfully loose format"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti "Order, movement, sense: all become arbitrary, means by which the teller conveys and creates meaning."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/4 "(Tongue-in) cheeky and rambling, much like the voluminous tome that inspired it."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth C "Never picked up any steam to run with its **** and bull story."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz A- "A self-referential, keenly absurd comedy with several layers of humor."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "For those who can appreciate the movie's ironic, self-referential nature, this is a thoroughly engaging, near-brilliant comedy."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. A- "A bold and imaginative piece of filmmaking that also happens to be delightfully droll...a grand, goofy entertainment in the true Sterne mold."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A rollicking comedy about a famous novel, movie-making, and the wild chaos of life that frustrates the sober-minded while generating gales of laughter in playful individuals"   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "The tone is lighthearted and the performances are effective but, in the end, the feature is so inconsequential as to leave no lasting impression."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "Bawdy behind-the-scenes comedy that neatly straddles antiquated fantasy and contemporary reality."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "Turns into a lampoon of the filmmaking process, which has its share of highly funny moments but otherwise feels like territory well-tread."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 5/5 "Michael Winterbottom may just be one of the greatest directors working today and, to boot, he's one of the few pure talents that remain unsullied by external pressures."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi "Really funny stuff, especially if you're into British humor, or appreciate lots of inside jokes about the filmmaking process."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/4 "The conceit of this Tristram Shandy is that it knows it's a movie, much as Sterne's book knew it was a novel."   Slant Magazine   Keith Uhlich B "While one doesn't necessarily have to have read the novel, it helps to have an idea of its concept. But I cannot imagine getting into this film with no foreknowledge of both the novel and Steve Coogan."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "For all its post-postmodern use of intersecting narratives, Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story works and, in certain spots, works brilliantly."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik A- "What Winterbottom has done beautifully is distill Sterne's comic experimentation with the rules and shape of the written narrative and translate it into a lark on filmmaking form and technique."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 2.5/4 "A film about a film based on a novel about writing a novel"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "[O]ne of the cleverest deconstructions and modernizations of a work of classic literature cinema has ever achieved..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B+ "A delirious orgy of self-reflexive ridiculousness."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "A film that will be enormously appealing to fans of British costume dramas, fans of movies about the making of movies and devotees of the likes of Peter Greenaway and Charlie Kaufman."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "A completely mad film within a film, setting narrative aside for a free-wheeling examination of identity"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B- ""Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story" is an amusing toss off that is full of tongue-in-cheek British humor for the film buffs."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B "Like The French Lieutenant's Woman, it's as much commentary as adaptation, but with a more playful approach and an understated, typically British sense of humor."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "Solidifies what Project Greenlight taught us; the process that goes into making a movie often ends up being far more entertaining than the finished project."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "The movie's delights unfold like an intricate, exotic puzzle: Winterbottom has built a detailed, miniature universe inside a sugar egg."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 3/4 "Not so much a mindf*** as a mindlovemaking."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh Page   1