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Talented Mr. Ripley, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for violence, language and brief nudity
Starring
Matt Damon,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Jude Law,
Cate Blanchett,
and
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
In the 1950's, a young American, Mr. Ripley (Damon), is sent to Europe to retrieve a spoiled millionaire playboy (Law). When the errand fails, Ripley kills the playboy and assumes his life.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Anthony Minghella
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Anthony Minghella
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 27, 2000
Video: June 27, 2000
Theatrical: December 24, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
139 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is as intelligent a thriller as you'll see this year.

100
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
It'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.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
This thriller is so expertly -- and perversely -- poised that audience members may find themselves secretly rooting for the duplicitous Ripley.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Minghella makes an enticing, intelligent, well-shaped picture about the extreme perils of class envy and sexual panic.

90
TNT RoughCut
Christopher Brandon
The talented Mr. Minghella is aping Alfred Hitchcock as effectively as Tom Ripley is doing Dickie Greenleaf.
90
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
A dark film that raises more questions than it answers -- and it's meant to.

90
Film.com
John Hartl
In 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.

89
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
Just the thing to clear your Capra-glutted holiday movie palate.

88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Delivers all the expected moments of high suspense --that is worthy of Hitchcock

88
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The picture has fine ensemble acting and superb Italian scenery. It would have more power if it were shorter and tighter.

88
USA Today
Mike Clark
In a possible breakthrough role, Law would seem to be the big winner.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A slick, twisty, top-of-the-line crime thriller with gorgeously sensual textures and a screenful of wickedly faceted performances.

88
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
The 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.

83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It'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.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
It 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.

80
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
Carnal, glamorous and worth the price.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Performances are aces top to bottom

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A beautifully mounted and directed film that, despite the presence of Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow, is unexpectedly lacking in emotional impact.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The talented Mr. Minghella has made an imperfect movie but not an impersonal one. His morality tale means to get under the skin, and does.
80
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Although he never matches the book in either brilliance or sheer perversity, Minghella has remained essentially true to his source.

80
Film.com
Robert Horton
May be Hitchcock on holiday, but that's a perfectly enjoyable vacation.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Matt Damon's performance isn't bad, but it pales in comparison with Law's.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Takes startling - and startlingly unpleasant - turns. This is not a film with anything approximating a conventional ending.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Minghella'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.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
This film of mistaken identity, murder, class envy and (bi)sexual tension doesn't live up to its own promise.

74
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
A near-perfect confection, a beautifully executed Hollywood all-you-can-eat salad bar of glamour, plot twists, breathtaking Mediterranean vistas, and jazz.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This coolly beautiful film is both a superior thriller and an engrossing study of a sociopath's progress.

70
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
It 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.

70
Dallas Observer
Scott Kelton Jones
Numbs as much as it unnerves.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Enter the world of the sociopathic killer and enjoy.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
Matt Damon can't quite piece together a compelling poseur.

60
Newsweek
David Ansen
Damon'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."

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel is commercial to the core.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
It's ploddingly directed, indifferently acted and insufficiently frightening.

30
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
It's a sign of how watered-down the movie is that only the supporting actors have any bite.


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