You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire. . .just to catch the zingers the audience often drowns out with laughter. Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartest comedy.

Writer/director David Mamet, who's built a career in both theater and film by being a hyper-manly sort of writer, has crafted a film that is laugh out loud funny and dinner-conversation smart.

Bouncing giddily from subplot to subplot and wisecrack to wisecrack, Mamet and company (and this is one of the truest ensemble works in years) satirize the slippery morals of the film racket and the surface-only decency of small town America.

A bona fide populist laugh riot.

A quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish.

Gently hilarious comedy.

A snarling satire of Hollywood single-mindedness and its lack of any moral underpinning.

Hilarious sweet and sour David Mamet comedy.

Delectably caustic comedy.

I laughed a lot at the anti-Hollywood humor and generally had a fine time, in spite of the holier-than-thou hypocrisy that makes this movie easily and even intentionally Mamet's most Hollywoodish picture to date.

Relentlessly funny satire.

This is probably the funniest Mamet piece to date (but not the weightiest), and it might be destined to take a seat alongside "The Player" and "Sunset Boulevard" in the front row of movieland satires.

Mamet does a shrewdly skillful job with these Tinseltown terrors.

Good clean dirty fun.