- Starring: Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn
- Summary: Intrigued by the notion of taking an intact, undeniable classic and seeing what would happen if it were made again - with a nearly identical shooting script - but with contemporary filmmaking techniques, Gus Van Sant recreates the motion picture Psycho. (Universal Studios)
- Director: Gus Van Sant
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 23
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Mixed: 11 out of 23
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Negative: 4 out of 23
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75Norman Bates is alive and well, and just a tad kinkier than you remember him.
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60A faithful-unto-slavish remake of the 1960 Hitchcock classic, pic contains nothing to outrage or offend partisans of the original, yet neither does it stand to add much to their appreciation.
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38The movie is an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless; genius apparently resides between or beneath the shots, or in chemistry that cannot be timed or counted.
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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