London 2005

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: An aggravating twerp of an indie. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Be very afraid. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: You should avoid it like a bad case of whooping cough. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: London's pretensions far outstrip its dorm-level contemplation of life's big issues. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Richards mistakes boorishness for drama, and the seemingly tendentious desire to be off-putting succeeds all too well. Read more

Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: It's not so interesting to watch people on cocaine babble back and forth at each other. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: Perhaps the best compliment that can be paid to Hunter Richards' directorial debut is that it nearly manages to make some of the most irritatingly shallow human beings on Earth seem tragic. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: 'You are so annoying!' our hero screams in the heroine's face, halfway through London. 'You are 10 times more annoying than me!' our heroine quickly answers. They're both right. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Don't you hate it when you're holed up in a bathroom with two egocentric guys snorting coke and kibitzing about the meaning of life and their failing love lives? Me, too. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I have seen all of these actors on better days in better movies, and I may have a novena said for them. Read more

Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy spends hours in a bathroom snorting a mother lode of cocaine while annoying everyone within earshot with his tales of woe. Sounds like a great idea for a movie. Let's do it! Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: For those who enjoy fashion-model-looking twentysomethings yelling at each other in bathrooms while doing too much cocaine, voila! Heaven is a place called London. Read more

Ed Park, Village Voice: Syd's emotional tailspin is embarrassingly banal, and his assertion that 'everybody here hates me' quickly applies to the audience as well. Read more