Finding Bliss 2009

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Call it the Frozen Assets Rule: If the one-joke premise of a comedy is accompanied -- or begs to be accompanied -- by the sound of a record scratching, avert your eyes. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: The supporting players, including Kristen Johnston as Grind's wise production head, Denise Richards as Jody's movie's gentle leading lady and Jamie Kennedy as a sweet but dense porn actor, also deftly rise to the occasion. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A mildly funny, stereotype-stuffed comedy about a straight-laced aspiring filmmaker who is forced to go to work for a producer of adult films. Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: What's limper than a self-referential indie about an aspiring filmmaker struggling to make a movie? One set in the superdirty porn industry! Read more

Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Davis sustains a steady level of soft humor throughout, thanks to her heroine's inexhaustible shockability and the palpable charm of the other thesps. Read more

Michelle Orange, Village Voice: It is particularly painful to watch Sobieski -- whose unnervingly symmetrical, Botticelli face and supernatural poise can't help but hold the screen -- put through the paces of Davis's almost unbearably labored script. Read more