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(1 - 11) of 11 OFCS Rating: 27% Rotten Page   1   "A grungy ensemble piece that casts a fascinating spell despite its many shortcomings, Madonna's directorial debut Filth and Wisdom is equal parts naughty and nice (or filthy and wise, as the title would have it)."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij D "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."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf D "Fans of Eugene Holtz may get a brief charge from his Ukrainian-inflected irony that saturates every word he utters, but all others should beware of giving this sloppy film the time of day."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 2.5/4 "Scraggly and aimless, a little cartoonish but highly personable."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez F "For there to be balance in the universe, good movies must alternate with bad ones. This is obviously one of the latter."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Leave it to the Material Girl to confound all knife-sharpened expectations, even in mediocrity."   UGO   Keith Uhlich D+ "Not surprisingly, the musical selections are fittingly raw but with the exception of supporting actress Francesca Kingdon everything about the film is amateurish."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[The film's] finest attribute is its scraggly, empathetic portrait of close-knit Londoners trying to make a go of things in haphazard, messy, always true-to-themselves ways."   Cinematical   Nick Schager 1/5 "It may be the single most disastrous film perpetrated by a musical icon since Paul McCartney made "Give My Regards to Broad Street.""   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski C- "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."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/10 "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."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh  (1 - 11) of 11 OFCS Rating: 27% Rotten Page   1