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In the Cut
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Metascore
46 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 38 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Ruffalo, Meg Ryan
  • Summary: A writing instructor (Ryan) has an erotic affair with a police detective (Ruffalo) investigating a murder in her New York neighborhood. (Sony)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 38
  3. Negative: 9 out of 38
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    If In the Cut falls short of the masterpiece Campion intended, it's unquestionably the most ambitious and important film to come along in months.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Ryan is raw and remarkably good, but the film's real star is New York. Draped in post-9/11 anxiety and brimming with a free-floating fear, the city hasn't appeared this threatening since the '70s.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    38
    The movie is all moist grime and seedy atmosphere, and it's certainly something to look at: It's beautifully lurid. But it's an empty, unengaging movie, and by the end, it has become ridiculous, too.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 7 out of 15
  1. HoinzaA.
    10
    [***SPOILERS***] The movie's edge seems to lay in the fact that the main female character "knows" unconsciously (until the very end) that the guy she is sleeping might be a killer. The plot is just a context to explore human relationships and the power they have to bring someone out of the slumber and numbness of everyday life.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. MattP.
    7
    This is an entertaining movie with breathtaking cinematography... if anything, that brings this movie to be worth viewing. I haven't seen many films that have such evocative cinematography.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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