Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles Times
Offers the pleasures of a chamber drama's bravura performances from a pair of supremely accomplished pros.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat.
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| 70 |
Film.com
A decent, smart, well-acted film.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
Ninety percent of this thriller is absolutely terrific; but the 10 percent that fails is so troubling that it threatens to undermine all that is wonderful in the rest.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
An engrossing, gem-hard little popcorn-cruncher.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
Pits the two actors against each other in a ''long night of the soul'' talkathon that director Stephen Hopkins' jerky editing techniques can't quite spark into sustained life.
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| 58 |
Mr. Showbiz
For many, the enticement of seeing two old pros smartly step through their pressurized pas de deux might be reason enough to buy a ticket.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
There is undeniable pleasure in watching these pros at work, but the murky depths of the soul can make for a dreary two hours.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Good acting and an effectively claustrophobic mood compensate for a story that doesn't add up to much in the long run.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Not even the high-caliber talents of Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman can save this stagy, ridiculously over-baked psychological thriller.
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| 38 |
New York Post
A profound disappointment, given its cast and source material.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Appears to be a somewhat sinister episode of "Nightline."
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Overproduced, psychologically muddled, and burdened with an enchantingly overheated screenplay.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Strangely, there's no thrust and parry to this potentially heavyweight mind game. The effect is more like a tennis match in which every feebly contested point ends with an unforced error.
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