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100The movie is as intelligent a thriller as you'll see this year.
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100This thriller is so expertly -- and perversely -- poised that audience members may find themselves secretly rooting for the duplicitous Ripley.
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100It's that rare movie with a sense of timeliness that is eternal, and a protagonist whose soul-crushed angst, even at its most fatal, speaks to the little boy/girl lost in everyone.
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91Minghella makes an enticing, intelligent, well-shaped picture about the extreme perils of class envy and sexual panic.
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90In the hands of Minghella and his star, Matt Damon, Ripley has become a more complex character, in some ways more understandable and approachable, in other ways as enigmatic as ever.
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90A dark film that raises more questions than it answers -- and it's meant to.
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90The talented Mr. Minghella is aping Alfred Hitchcock as effectively as Tom Ripley is doing Dickie Greenleaf.
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89Just the thing to clear your Capra-glutted holiday movie palate.
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88The picture has fine ensemble acting and superb Italian scenery. It would have more power if it were shorter and tighter.
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88Delivers all the expected moments of high suspense --that is worthy of Hitchcock
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88In a possible breakthrough role, Law would seem to be the big winner.
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88A slick, twisty, top-of-the-line crime thriller with gorgeously sensual textures and a screenful of wickedly faceted performances.
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88The only thing missing from this rich production is an emotional charge, which Highsmith could create on the page but which Minghella doesn't quite capture on screen.
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83It's a refreshing sensation, even if it makes you feel a touch seasick at first, and the fittingly eerie conclusion to a lavish and unsettling movie.
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83It demands people pay attention and look inward to find the private compass that will navigate us through murky sensibilities that are as capable of seducing us as they are Tom Ripley.
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80Although he never matches the book in either brilliance or sheer perversity, Minghella has remained essentially true to his source.
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80The talented Mr. Minghella has made an imperfect movie but not an impersonal one. His morality tale means to get under the skin, and does.
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80May be Hitchcock on holiday, but that's a perfectly enjoyable vacation.
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80A beautifully mounted and directed film that, despite the presence of Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow, is unexpectedly lacking in emotional impact.
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Carnal, glamorous and worth the price.
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80Performances are aces top to bottom
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75Minghella's psychological redraft muffles the menace, squanders the tension, throws away the main character and plot engine and turns Ripley into something he never was or should be.
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75Matt Damon's performance isn't bad, but it pales in comparison with Law's.
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75This film of mistaken identity, murder, class envy and (bi)sexual tension doesn't live up to its own promise.
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75Takes startling - and startlingly unpleasant - turns. This is not a film with anything approximating a conventional ending.
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74A near-perfect confection, a beautifully executed Hollywood all-you-can-eat salad bar of glamour, plot twists, breathtaking Mediterranean vistas, and jazz.
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70This coolly beautiful film is both a superior thriller and an engrossing study of a sociopath's progress.
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70It must be hard to misread the tone of a book as single-minded as Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, but Anthony Minghella manages somehow.
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Numbs as much as it unnerves.
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70Matt Damon can't quite piece together a compelling poseur.
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70Enter the world of the sociopathic killer and enjoy.
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60Damon's Ripley is considerably different from the charming sociopath in Patricia Highsmith's novel or the smooth lothario played by Alain Delon in the 1960 French thriller "Purple Noon."
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60This adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel is commercial to the core.
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38It's ploddingly directed, indifferently acted and insufficiently frightening.
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30It's a sign of how watered-down the movie is that only the supporting actors have any bite.
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ElizabethM.10This film is my all time favourite film. The scenery is beautiful, the acting is great and the film is extremely well written.
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