Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen 2006

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Glowna presents this smoky German feature as an elegy for lost youth, but it's so tumescent with male self-pity that I couldn't wait for it to end. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Sure, there's copious full-frontal female nudity and an aroused male body part, but such scenes are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. There's a subtle difference, but still a difference. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Do you find this premise anything but repugnant? It offends not only civilized members of both sexes, but even dirty old men, dramatizing as it does their dirtiness and oldness. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Time Out: A meandering, self-indulgent rumination on old age, death and unfulfillable desire, German actor-director Vadim Glowna's adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's surreal, ironic short story gets everything but the surrealism and irony right. Read more

Vadim Rizov, Village Voice: One of the year's worst releases. Read more