One of the consistent problems of the omnibus film, whether it's a commercial effort like the 1932 If I Had a Million or an arthouse-aimed endeavor like the many European anthologies of the 1960s where a thirty-minute episode by Fellini or Godard would stand out from four or five segments by less distinguished colleagues, is that they tend to be uneven. Inevitably there will be some episodes that outshine the others, and some that will quite simply be terrible, making the film as a whole seem like an inconsistent muddle.…
One of the consistent problems of the omnibus film, whether it's a commercial effort like the 1932 If I Had a Million or an arthouse-aimed endeavor like the many European anthologies of the 1960s where a thirty-minute episode by Fellini or Godard would stand out from four or five segments by less distinguished colleagues, is that they tend to be uneven. Inevitably there will be some episodes that outshine the others, and some that will quite simply be terrible, making the film as a whole seem like an inconsistent muddle.…