Stephen Garrett Time Out Nov 17, 2011 2/5

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David D'Arcy Screen International Dec 1, 2008

This one has nothing extraordinary about it to compensate for seven years' staleness.

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Jonathan W. Hickman Entertainment Insiders Oct 18, 2008 3/4

A movie that makes a good initial public offering.

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Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics Jul 27, 2008 4/10

If you want to see ignorant self destruction, see Troy Duffy in "Overnight" and forget this film---the worst mistake Josh Hartnett has made in his career.

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Marshall Fine Star Magazine Jul 16, 2008 3.5/4

While this modest indie offers high-tension plotting, it's real substance is the contrast between Hartnett's charismatic, hard-charging business persona and his intimacy-challenged real-life relationships.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Jul 16, 2008 A-

Anyone who thinks that Josh Hartnett isn't a true movie star should see his riveting, high-wire performance in August, a shrewdly dramatized look back at the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

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John Anderson Newsday Jul 14, 2008 3/4

Smartly scripted, convincingly atmospheric morality fable in which Hartnett, usually insubstantial as a good guy, plays a convincingly flawed character galloping toward the precipice.

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Kurt Loder MTV Jul 14, 2008

...the picture ... provides Josh Hartnett with one of his most interesting roles, and it elicits one of his sharpest performances.

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Ken Fox TV Guide Jul 11, 2008 3/4

This stylish, well acted drama chronicles one once-successful dot-com's efforts to stay afloat in the wake of the Internet boom's bust.

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Kyle Smith New York Post Jul 11, 2008 0.5/4

Only an amusing cameo by David Bowie enlivens things, but he's onscreen for just about two minutes at the end.

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Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News Jul 11, 2008 3/5

There's not much to it, but Austin Chick's hyper-focused indie does serve as a nicely assured showcase for lead Josh Hartnett.

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Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Jul 11, 2008 2.5/5

Has a dark desperation that(TM)s morbidly compelling. But the movie(TM)s amoral momentum is fatally slowed by an acronym-heavy script and flimsy characterizations that offer fine actors...little to play.

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Paul Brenner Filmcritic.com Jul 10, 2008 2/5

all gloss and pizzazz but mostly pizz and no azz.

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Nathan Rabin AV Club Jul 10, 2008 C-

August is a brooding, boring indie drama about the death of the culture-wide hallucination that was the dot-com bubble, and the moment when countless dot-com millionaires on paper became real-life paupers.

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Matt Pais Metromix.com Jul 10, 2008 2.5/5

Merely serves to watch a company's ashes fall without really considering what started the fire.

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Nick Pinkerton Village Voice Jul 10, 2008

August seems to be missing something essential -- a prologue? Or maybe it's not what's missing that's the problem, but what's here.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 7, 2008 C

Rodman's potentially intriguing idea about the 2001 crash of the dot-com biz just months before 9/11 is poorly executed by helmer Chick (XX/XY), who doesn't take full advantage of his star cast, headed by Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris and David Bowie.

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Prairie Miller NewsBlaze Jul 7, 2008

A procession of anger mismanagement protagonist episodes of rude behavior with assorted unbelievably receptive babes, and a glutton-for-punishment old flame (Naomie Harris) whom he manages to re-con into bed, before she wises up all over again.

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Nick Schager Slant Magazine Jul 7, 2008 1.5/4

Hartnett does windbag cockiness well, yet the overriding conception of his character and the Dot Com phenom in general is so straightforward and unrevealing that his effort goes for naught.

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Rex Reed Observer Jul 2, 2008

The direction by somebody called Austin Chick gives the appearance of being phoned in from an Internet bar in another town.

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