Four Rooms 1995

Janet Maslin, New York Times: The less said about this career-denting fiasco, the better. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The results are mainly awful, and even Roth got saddled with a mannered part that he can't comfortably play. Read more

Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times: Sounds better than it is. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Four Rooms has to be one of 1995's major disappointments. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The four segments are widely different in quality. On the useful scale of the Michelin guides, one is worth a trip, another is worth a detour, and the other two are a colossal waste of bandwidth. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: The result is a batch of shrill, self-indulgent sketches that turn so wretched in spots you start to wonder if the filmmakers wanted them to be bad. Read more

Time Out: They should have called this One Room and released it as a Rodriguez short. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Four of the hottest indie directors--Anders, Rockwell, Tarantino, and Rodrigues--miss a unique opportunity to display their idiosyncratic talents resulting in a tedious anthology in which 2 segments are inept, one barely decent, and one OK (guess whose) Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Four Rooms asserts itself as a goof so laboriously and aggressively that you almost feel pinned back in your seat. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The segments are uniformly weak. Read more