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09/11/04
Wicker Park (2004)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:27
Rotten:91
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In remaking the 1996 French thriller L'APPARTEMENT, director Paul McGuigan transplants the story to the snow-covered Windy City, Chicago. Josh Hartnett is Matthew, a good-looking young man who has... [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne
Director: Paul McGuigan
Reviews for Wicker Park
Top CriticSums up everything that's wrong with American remakes of foreign films: it's dumbed down so far, it's just plain dumb.
08/24/04
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09/11/04
A slick movie with a nice-looking cast and a script that strips away everything that made the original so elusive and involving.
06/12/04
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02/09/06
Top Critictricks the audience into deceiving itself before unraveling another set of assumptions by deftly shifting the point of view
09/01/04
there’s a je ne sais quoi about the film that transcends what might otherwise be mere art for art’s sake and makes it pleasantly enjoyable
09/01/04
It seems to take a confused eternity to get started, but once director Paul McGuigan's m.o. finally becomes apparent, the thing takes on a dogged kind of interest.
09/04/04
That Wicker Park becomes as engrossing as it does is particularly shocking, given the almost interminable opening hour...
01/15/05
A fairly engrossing look at the havoc obsession can wreak on people's lives.
09/03/04
This is a great date movie. Handholding can get quite serious during the film's many intense scenes.
09/08/04
Not the customary disposable cinematic fare released on the always-slow Labor Day weekend, but an intriguing, original film of ideas and human feeling.
09/04/04
McGuigan has a superb sense of wild romanticism, sometimes blending it with thriller-style tension and other times just reveling in it.
09/02/04
This film is genuinely interested in getting us inside the heads of its three leads (Matthew, Alex, and Lisa). It wants us to understand, although not necessarily sympathize with, all three of them.
09/06/04
For some, this will be an enjoyable mystery to sort out; for others it's a headache waiting to happen.
09/03/04
A classy psychological thriller that challenges the audience to keep up with it.
09/02/04
...impressed me enough to want to recommend the film to anyone who...
09/01/04
Ambitious script, slick director, strong supporting cast ... wrong lead actors.
09/03/04
A powerfully compelling film that gains most of its intrigue via the artifice of purposefully withholding information from the moviegoer.
09/05/04
Wicker Park, a deeply psychological story about love and obsession, is really a hard film to pin down--but refreshingly enough, that's a good thing
09/03/04
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