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this dark comedy's clever premise is too thin to sustain its feature-length running timeby Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter ]
the film feels like its over long before the credits roll-or perhaps that's just wishful thinkingby Sam Adams [Time Out New York ]
the Brass Teapot is more like a dark flirtation with the American nightmare that backfiresby Rex Reed [New York Observer ]
Ms. Mosley, who directed from a screenplay by Tim Macy, struggles to fill her debut feature with a slender notion, but the premise defeats her, even if the story operates at the outset on the pleasure principleby Joe Morgenstern [Wall Street Journal ]
but it's the good-natured Angarano who grounds a movie light enough to float awayby Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]
"The Brass Teapot" ultimately feels like an interminably stretched-out skit rather than a storybook lesson stained with blood and hurtby Robert Abele [Los Angeles Times ]