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Center of the World
Artisan Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Shane Edelman,
Balthazar Getty,
Carla Gugino,
Shirley Knight,
Molly Parker,
and
Peter Sarsgaard
An erotic drama about a young computer wizard (Sarsgaard) who persuades a beautiful stripper (Parker) to spend three days with him in Las Vegas. Their arrangement becomes a journey into the dark secrets of their sexuality. (Artisan Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Ellen Benjamin Wong
(story) Wayne Wang
Miranda July
Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Wayne Wang
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 18, 2001
Video: December 18, 2001
Theatrical: April 18, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
86 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
If you understand who the characters are and what they're supposed to represent, the performances are right on the money.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Like "Tango," Wang's film also seeks to uncover whether sex without emotion is really possible, or worth the effort.
70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Wang is working on your mind, not your body.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It's also about pain, which both tempers and complicates the eroticism.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A fairly sexy, serious-minded drama hobbled by its lack of real conceptual ambition.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Provoke us into examining whether the onus is on the man for turning it into a commercial proposition or the woman for agreeing to his offer.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Too arty by half.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Sober and serious and downright glum, ultimately an all-too-familiar portrait of lonely souls unable to break through their own isolation.

50
LA Weekly
Steven Mikulan
We should be thankful for the courage of Wang and his cast in standing against a culture that nervously treats sex as either a prurient joke or a puritan crime.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
It certainly has its moments (erotic and otherwise), but there just aren't enough of them.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
All Center of the World has is the double entendre of its title, some unremarkable dramatic and sex scenes, and some embarrassing moments for its very game co-stars.
50
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
For better or worse the movie is simply simple -- the project's quality and significance depend upon one's perspective: Is this a daring and impressive homespun yarn or just a very middling stab at soft-core?

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Wang's film doesn't really have anything more to say about power, manipulation and the wild unpredictability of sexual energy than "Last Tango" did 30 years ago.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's only when he (Wang) slows down and allows the characters to connect emotionally that his movie's unflinching honesty takes your breath away.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Where Mike Figgis' film, with Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, bore deeply and darkly into emotional territory, The Center of the World turns out to be just as fake as its setting.
40
Film.com
Robert Horton
In this case, I have to say, the sense of boredom.

40
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Hysterical but inorganic, lacking blood, sweat, or tears.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Adults may discover, however, that when they get to the center of this particular world, they find no real there there.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Offers nothing but tired "Red Shoe" Diaries-style sexploitation for the art-house crowd.
30
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
The dance he (Wang) ended up with is on the wrong lap.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
One pities poor Molly Parker, a fine actress who was somehow persuaded to disrobe for this degrading and dispiriting Wayne Wang film.

20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
In a culture apparently defined by lap dancing, ersatz architectural sublimity and the virtual contact of cyberspace, how do we know what is real? The Center of the World, for example, is as phony as can be.

20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Drowning in uncharted waters and way off-center in any world.

20
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
All this sadness becomes so depressing to watch, testing the limits of the patience of even a viewer prepared to take Wang's underlying concerns seriously.


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