Critic Reviews

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  The barely watchable buddy comedy L.A. Twister is so sloppily put together it bungles its recycled movie-within-a-movie conceit.

• Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News

  Fun and entertaining but ends up lending an air of contrivance that keeps you from taking it too much to heart.

• Janice Page, Boston Globe

  Pape and Saville-Read are so busy winking and chuckling over their own clever lampooning of Hollywood conventions that they forget to make the rest of us care.

• Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

  In trying to qualify as mordant satire, charming rom-com, uplifting buddy movie about underdogs trying to stick it to the man and the most meta story ever told, L.A. Twister sprains itself badly.

• Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

  Seeing Hollywood as a business indifferent to dreamers with no cash flow isn't a revelation, but a given. If you're going to hold a mirror up to Tinseltown, at least try tilting it at a new angle.

• Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

  The semiserious comedy by director Sven Pape is in its own category, and unfortunately it's not always an interesting one.

• Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star

  There are some cute moments here but nothing to write home about. The inside-Hollywood jokes are just that.

• Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)

  The whole thing seems way too self-congratulatory; an indie movie that's all about celebrating people who make indie movies.

• Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, TheMovieChicks.com

  This L.A. story is more like a straight to video kind of movie than one to rush out and see on the big screen.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  One of those feeble little efforts you'd be inclined to skip at a minor film festival--with good reason.

• Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly

  As written by Geoffrey Saville-Read and directed by Sven Pape, the satire is toothless.

• Robin Clifford, Reeling Reviews

  The best thing about "L.A. Twister" is the energetic, snappy performance by Zack Ward

• Kim Williamson, Boxoffice Magazine

  Both Daly and Ward turn in fine performances ... Undercutting their efforts and the movie's believability are the on-set hijinks strangely included at the end of certain scenes.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  Silly, good-natured and full of unlikely moves.

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