“The timing is off – in a macro sense.”

“…somehow spoofs the conventions of fantasy romance without teetering into irony.”

“…runs on some delicious self-critique.”

“Technology has enabled this Don to do what the original Don Juan may have ultimately wanted: to be pleasured alone, giving nothing of himself.”

“…strikes a balance between blithely endorsing the delusions of its mentally ill characters and comically demonizing them.’

“…a movie of wry simplicity that has been subjected to all sorts of avant-garde tinkering.”

“Pegg and Wright’s movies laugh, bleed and explode in the face of maturity, even as they begrudgingly recognize the virtue of it.”

“The central tension in Prince Avalanche is one between solitude and community.”

“If only this performance was in a different movie, one more in sync with the panic that glints in Blanchett’s eyes.”

“…gleeful self-distraction in the face of impending doom.”