- Starring: Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley, Josh Lucas, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn
- Summary: Based on the novel by Anita Shreve, this is the story of a contemporary woman whose obsession with a notorious unsolved crime from the 1800s leads her to confront devastating truths in her own life. (Lions Gate Films)
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 22
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Mixed: 15 out of 22
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Negative: 3 out of 22
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75Despite the deftness with which Bigelow handles the transitions, the modern story never attains the intrigue and tension of the period tale.
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60It's an intelligently made (and beautifully edited) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the Hollywood pipeline without a hitch.
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30Provides an unfulfilled promise of pleasure (providing one doesn't cave in to the spectacle of bare-chested Elizabeth Hurley sucking on an ice cube) in this heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 4
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Mixed: 2 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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