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75The biggest surprise may be what the filmmaker doesn't show; he withholds a big dramatic payoff, so the audience must fill in the blanks.
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75Sometimes, typecasting works: Holmes and Bratt settle comfortably into their roles, and the movie proves a competently made, mildly diverting collegiate thriller -- at least until its all-too-predictable ''twist'' ending.
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67Holmes ably handles the starring role, but the handsome Bratt doesn't have enough material to cement his film career. The supporting cast is strong.
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63A moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the way, and then our hands close on air. If you walk out before the ending, you'll think it's better than it is.
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63Has the integrity of good dialogue and enough of a writer's preserved craftiness to make it a worthwhile date-night attraction.
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63Don't abandon Abandon. In the movies' long weekly line-up, it stands apart -- innocent of banality, and guilty of nothing more damning than intelligent effort that falls a tad short.
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63Abandon tags Katie Holmes as a talented actor with surprising range and vast, untapped potential - so much, in fact, that watching her, one can almost overlook the film's many flaws. Almost.
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50Too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger, more complicated story, one that never materializes.
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50A disjointed movie with uneven acting and too many scenes that defy belief.
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40The story's rhythm is so bogged down in unnecessary characterization that the film can hardly breathe.
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40Aiming to elicit a last-minute shiver from the audience, Gaghan is likely to get instead a mood-destroying giggle.
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40Gaghan shows promise as a director, but Abandon leaves a lot of room for improvement.
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40Hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown, the film nevertheless works up a few scares, particularly a tense call-number hunt in the library stacks.
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40A thriller wrapped in heavy-duty gauze to muffle the chills.
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38Holmes, of Dawson's Creek, will be up the creek if she can't avoid movies like this. And so will you if you see it.
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38Abandon is this CLOSE to being good, juicy, bad-movie fun.
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38With the flat characters and lifeless performances, it's a wonder that anyone in the audience can stay awake all the way through this dull and dreary production.
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33Has a few pleasing stylistic flourishes and a potentially Hitchcockian plot, but the writing and rhythm are so off that when the final "shocker" arrives, we have seen it coming or have abandoned caring.
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30What hath "The Sixth Sense" wrought? These days, it seems as if every psychological thriller has a surprise finish.
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30This alleged thriller, which might be described as "'Gaslight' Goes to College," is one of the most incoherent features in recent memory.
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30Crossing "A Beautiful Mind" with "Sex Kittens Go to College," first-time director Stephen Gaghan (he wrote Traffic) causes a head-on collision.
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30A trite psychological thriller -- all buildup and no payoff, a mystery that essentially offers only two alternative solutions, which diminishes the element of surprise and strings the viewer along way past caring which possibility proves to be true.
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30Passably interesting psychological study of emotionally wounded characters until it commits dramatic suicide by showing its true colors as a tricked-up "Fatal Attraction" wannabe.
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20Stephen Gaghan, who scripted this turkey, landed in the director's chair after Edward Zwick (Glory) bailed out, and you can almost smell the flop sweat.
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12A confusing mishmash.
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10Consider the title your best advice.
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