Delirious

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Critics' Reviews

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
This is the best DiCillo movie I've seen, and he's made some good ones ("Box of Moonlight," "The Real Blonde").Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Tom DiCillo’s angry comedy Delirious subjects modern celebrity culture to a microscopic examination that shows the toxic virus of fame squirming and multiplying under its lens.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Among DiCillo's best, and returns to the central theme of his career: the elusive and destructive nature of fame.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Buscemi makes this pathetic and potentially lethal shutterbug a figure of surprising humor and compassion.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
A story peopled by flawed archetypes, it's an achingly funny film that is also a little sad around the edges.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Agently attitudinous, generally zippy urban fairy tale about pop stars and the hangers-on who coddle (or prey upon) them, Tom DiCillo's Delirious is a mild "Midnight Cowboy," a minor "King of Comedy," and mainly a vehicle for Steve Buscemi as a lower Manhattan–based paparazzo.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Everyone here is obsessed with finding "the real thing" - the next hot actor, the next revealing paparazzi shot, the lover or the friend who'll make it all worthwhile. Everyone settles for the illusion of reality instead. It's prettier, and it doesn't hurt so much.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
It would be nice to see a sharp, funny, penetrating satire of the new, kicked-up culture of empty media fame, but Tom DiCillo's scattershot buddy movie Delirious isn't it.Read Full Review »
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