An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
What unites everything is Jarmusch's playful, hang-dog absurdism.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
7 Aug 2004
fresh:
A black-and-white novelty that plays like a directing-class exercise, you take your good with your bad with this one.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
23 Jul 2004
rotten:
The film is a series of scenes, skits, episodes, that show two or sometimes three people smoking and sipping and conversing, usually in grungy places and usually improvising -- at least that's the intended impression.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
13 Jun 2004
rotten:
A hit-or-miss movie.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
3 Jun 2004
rotten:
An irresistible idea results in a movie as hazy and sometimes as irritating as cigarette smoke.