What Just Happened

horrified by a hirsute Bruce Willis (playing himself) and flummoxed by Willis' agent Dick (John Turturro), who's scared to death of his own clients.....By contrast, Robin Wright Penn is beautifully centred.... ... Full Review

IT'S hard to make a good satire about Hollywood....Fiercely ends with some gangsters shooting Sean Penn in a grim industrial setting.....De Niro's performance is understated, without the volcanic emanations we are used to..... ... Full Review

IT'S hard to make a good satire about Hollywood....Fiercely ends with some gangsters shooting Sean Penn in a grim industrial setting.....De Niro's performance is understated, without the volcanic emanations we are used to..... ... Full Review

it's a gritty thriller starring Sean Penn and the film opens in a test screening:....the angry British director is refusing.... ... Full Review

The clever new showbiz satire What Just Happened takes this quote and circles it, underlines it....Directed in a blunt, matter-of-fact manner by Barry Levinson from a screenplay by Linson, What Just Happened does not get many laughs out of its farcical subject.....It is hardly a sensational performance, but it is completely fitting.....The results are overwhelmingly negative for this thriller starring Sean Penn....As What Just Happened quite rightly points out, making a hit movie is not a matter of art..... ... Full Review

The clever new showbiz satire What Just Happened takes this quote and circles it, underlines it....Directed in a blunt, matter-of-fact manner by Barry Levinson from a screenplay by Linson, What Just Happened does not get many laughs out of its farcical subject.....It is hardly a sensational performance, but it is completely fitting.....The results are overwhelmingly negative for this thriller starring Sean Penn....As What Just Happened quite rightly points out, making a hit movie is not a matter of art:.... ... Full Review

I'm a real sucker for movies about Hollywood.....I think that's the problem with the film.....MICHAEL WINCOTT is crazily impressive as a mad English director with his own personal sense of revenge against the system..... ... Full Review

Funnier still is a show-stealing John Turturro as a dotty agent who's physically afraid of his clients (especially Willis).....What happened wasn't part of this clever Hollywood satire that skewers Hollywood itself..... ... Full Review

What Just Happened pokes fun at Hollywood....As a satire on the power struggles....there are some fantastic performances and devilish chuckles.....the ever-reliable Catherine Keener is a joy as a ball-breaking studio head..... ... Full Review

On the one hand, Ben has a terrible film in the cans which faces the scissors at the studio screening itself..... ... Full Review