The movie reeks of film-student overkill ( Susan Wloszczyna , USA Today ) . It would only be allowed to ooz [ e ] out of Miramax 's storeroom in the otherwise fallow month of January , says the Village Voice ' s Amy [ I ] ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view .
The movie reeks of film-student overkill because fails at having true meaning .