For all its clammy atmosphere and sinful airs, In the Cut is a cold, airless, frustratingly detached experience.
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10/31/03
In the Cut (2003)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:48
Rotten:96
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Ryan is very good playing against type, but Campion's good-looking thriller is far from thrilling.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of... [More]
Starring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Jane Campion
Reviews for In the Cut
Realistic eroticism aside, there are plenty of other things to recommend here.
10/31/03
Top CriticCampion hits the same thematic ground with the same passionate release as she did in The Piano (1993) and the underrated Holy Smoke (1999).
10/31/03
Jane Campion's In the Cut is a thriller without thrills, a whodunit so transparent, there is no real mystery and a sex-obsessed drama that's not sexy.
10/31/03
Despite its weaknesses, this is an entrancing movie.
10/31/03
A muddle of thriller and art-house phantasmagoria.
10/31/03
Ultimately the question people may ask about In The Cut could be, She took her clothes off for this?
10/31/03
More of a curiosity than a full-fledged movie.
10/31/03
In the Cut manages to answer a question only a few of us were asking, and even fewer really wanted to know -- can a serial-killer movie be insufferably pretentious? Now we know. The answer is yes -- and how!
10/31/03
A disappointment.
10/31/03
Stunning and unrelenting.
10/31/03
In The Cut doesn't make the cut when it comes to the list of must-see Meg Ryan movies.
10/31/03
All of this is well done, and yet the movie is kind of a shambles. The key supporting characters are awkwardly used, as if the movie thinks it ought to have them but doesn't know why.
10/31/03
Top CriticIt's been a while since a major filmmaker has made a movie this heavy with symbolism, this portentous, and this bad.
10/31/03
[N]ever genuinely erotic or nasty or sexy like it should be.
10/31/03
Simply put, this is not an entertaining film.
10/31/03
for all its flaws, there's something about this jittery thriller that's likely to get under your skin...
10/31/03
(Feels) less like a thriller and more like a fantasy of feminine self-hatred in which being manhandled by vile men is a turn-on.
10/31/03
In thrall to the power of words.
10/30/03
"Ryan’s actual performance is the strongest, most quirk-free work that she is doe in years."
10/30/03
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