Metacritic reviews

The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason.

A wonderfully twisted comedy.

He (LaBute) pulls the farce and the violence and the fantasies together with a deft touch and a sweetness rare in American films -- especially his.

It is easily the finest American comedy since David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," another road movie that never ran out of poignantly funny surprises.

Betty moves into Coen Brothers territory, a land so unreal that horrific behavior wrings laughter from a disbelieving audience.

It's a nicely tart gulp of grown-up wit and cynicism -- with, for a change, a cherry on top.

This oddly cheerful, decreasingly dark comedy actually works and can boast some of the most enjoyable performances of the year.

A black comedy that features Renee Zellweger as the most adorable psychiatric-trauma victim ever.

Observing Zellweger as she dispenses her brand of movie magic definitely is good for what ails you.

LaBute is some kind of find: an auteur for people who don't like movies.