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Cast
- Steve BuscemiJohn
- Romany MalcoVirgil
- Sarah SilvermanJill
- Peter DinklageMr. Townsend
- Tim Blake NelsonNed
- John ChoSmitty
- Emmanuelle ChriquiTasty D Lite
Recommendations
- 50
The A.V. Club
Predictably, the best moments belong to Buscemi, whose performance is a model of understatement in a field of grotesques. - 40
Boxoffice Magazine
An amusing turn from Steve Buscemi in the title role and some sporadically funny, off-beat dialogue provided by debuting writer/director Hue Rhodes make for a passable, if forgettable, little time passer. - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The film turns into one of those indie parades of eccentrics that are hit-and-miss but mostly miss. - 40
Time Out
Though the credits include an impressive roster of names, this low-stakes poker hand feels like an undiscovered relic from the early ’90s, and that’s not a good thing. - 38
Rolling Stone
First-time director and screenwriter Hue Rhodes shows no discernible talent for dialogue, humor and, especially, pacing. - 30
Village Voice
Mostly, Saint John traps good comic performers--including Malco and Peter Dinklage as John's boss--in airless editing and an unproductive, unresolved, sludgy tone. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
The movie is a letdown, stringing together pointless episodes to little effect. It's the kind of thinly conceived, quirk-for-quirk's-sake indie that gives indies a bad name. - 20
Wall Street Journal
The writing is semicoherent at best, and the buddies of this meandering road trip are not only mismatched but dislikable.
