Observe and Report

More than once, writer-director Jody Hill teases out the slippy, gray area between a subversive gross-out gag and something unsettlingly misogynist. He wants to push buttons, and he's talented enough to get away with it.

Much of the movie is just plain vicious. At best, it's sad and grotesque, rather than hilarious.

Writer-director Jody Hill thinks he's trying to push the envelope but doesn't know in which direction, or why.

The film’s tone is somewhere between Napoleon Dynamite and Taxi Driver, in an unexpected and clever way.

In-your-face and out-of-control, but very wickedly funny.

Seth Rogen gives what is easily the best performance of his career.

It is not the simple story we've come to know from the average Hollywood comedy. And that is why it works so well.