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Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Curiosity-seekers may trickle in, but despite the deliberate move to release the flick unrated, there's nothing in here to merit a raised eyebrow. Read more
Ben Lyons, At the Movies: I'm confident the material girl has more good material for movies ahead of her. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Madonna shoots it all like a home movie made by someone who has been on the other side of the camera so often, doing music videos, reality no longer feels remotely real. Read more
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: Madonna, making her directorial debut, aims for the romping irreverence of Richard Lester's 60s comedies, and though she lacks the formal control to pull it off, this is a charming mess. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Paying audiences aren't usually subjected to projects this amateurish. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Madonna has made a career out of toying with image and ego, but this is a vanity project in the smallest sense possible. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: This is a movie that's just sort of there, and nobody much would have paid any attention to it without the Madonna connection. And chances are nobody much will even with that connection. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth. Read more
Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News: For an artist who has spent so much of her career reinventing herself to lead pop culture, not to mention fatten her pocketbook, Madonna seems at her most sincere behind this camera. She coaxes genuine moments from the three principals. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Message to the director: Don't quit your day job just yet, but in the category of multidisciplinary artists moonlighting as filmmakers, I'll take you over Julian Schnabel any day. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: In technical terms, more professional productions than this are filmed and cut on iMovie, by ten-year-olds, a thousand times a day. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Uniformly badly acted down to a loaf of bread, this eye-bleedingly stupid and witless movie is proof that just because someone is considered an icon doesn't mean she should be allowed near movie cameras. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Thoroughly inept in just about every aspect. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Impossibly arty and, at times, narratively incoherent, Filth and Wisdom still has its goofy charms. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a very deeply non-caring movie. I liked Hutz when he sang. I imagine Gene Shalit ate his heart out when he saw Hutz's moustache. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Nothing in this cynical bit of claptrap feels remotely real. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: At 84 minutes, the movie feels both overpadded and underdeveloped. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Does anyone remember when Madonna was considered shocking? Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Filth and Wisdom is pretentious and structurally flawed, never truly coming together as a coherent work. Read more
Leslie Felperin, Variety: Ineptly written and helmed story of three Londoners, although quite bad, does have a few redeeming features. Read more
Neely Tucker, Washington Post: Madonna fans will probably want to go anyway -- hey, I can't stop you -- but I can tell you that the movie delivers on neither of the promises of its title. Read more