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The Tao of Steve Review: A massively charming and intelligent film that is tailor-made for its low budget and independent milieu, The Tao of Steve launched the career of character actor Donal Logue to a new level. In her directorial debut, Jenniphr Goodman maintains the integrity of an artistic high-wire act, sympathetically presenting a main character who is staggeringly selfish, smug, and manipulative -- but who's also skating by on loads of witty appeal. That Dex (Logue) remains likable and interesting despite his negative qualities is a measure of Goodman's skill as a co-writer and director. Without the skepticism she brings to the proceedings and the careful revelations that Dex is slyly self-deluded, audiences would reject rather than embrace him. Like many other indie projects, particularly those from Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, Goodman's romantic comedy contains heavy doses of postmodern irony and media-obsessed cultural observations. Also starring Greer Goodman, the director's sister, Taowas co-written by Duncan North, the Goodmans' friend and real-life model for Dex. A film festival hit, Tao was also subsequently developed as a possible television series. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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