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Rick (2004)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4

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Rick is a rare feature that makes intelligent and exciting use of audience bewilderment. From its opening scenes, this quirky update of Verdi's Rigoletto thrusts viewers into a bizarre corporate culture in which mean-spiritedness, adolescent high jinks, and general dimwittedness are the norm, but there is no explanation as to why. Yet it's impossible to turn away from the madness and decadence of scenes in which Bill Pullman's middle-aged executive, Rick, engages in monstrous behavior toward

R, 1 hr. 33 min.

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Nov 9, 2004

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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (14) | DVD (1)

By hewing so faithfully to their source, the creators don't let the material pursue its own direction, and the result feels dramatically arbitrary.

October 22, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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An ill-advised combination of tragedy and satire, it generally plays like the coffee-break fantasy of a temp who messed up a lunch order and paid for it with his dignity.

October 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Everything about this curio is claustrophobic.

October 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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It's rotten to the core and right down to the end. But if you find that such extremes can be fascinating, then the movie may cheer you, not because it is happy, but because it goes for broke.

October 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Daniel Handler's script has snap, crackle and pop (he's the author of the popular Lemony Snicket children's books), and Curtiss Clayton's direction is darkly crisp.

September 24, 2004 Comment
New York Post
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In this tale of karmic payback, a humiliated job applicant lays a curse on a corporate snake that leads quickly to ruin.

September 23, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Julgando que ambientar Rigoletto nos dias atuais é o bastante para ser aplaudido, o filme erra nos diálogos e no tom da narrativa, tornando-se insípido e descartável.

November 24, 2004 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Very funny, very dark and very clever -- a tale of the corporate id gone wild that promises to upset even the most jaded and hardened of sensibilities.

November 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Wcreenwriter Daniel Handler [(a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)] employs an O. Henry-like twist of irony that first-time director Curtiss Clayton telegraphs long before it strikes.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | Comment
Salt Lake Tribune

Manages to be both disquieting and entertaining -- and that's quite a cunning feat of cinema.

October 25, 2004 Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | Comment
SPLICEDWire

The intended black comedy is no more than a wan mix of over-the-top unpleasantness and obvious psychologizing.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

Sometimes it's hard to hear the dialogue because the gears of the plot are trying so hard and creaking so loudly.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Boston Herald | Comment
Boston Herald

A tragic story graced with lots of comedic touches, which makes for an often awkward tone.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

A new mythology with new morals for a rough, uncertain age.

October 18, 2004 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

[The] story and emotions seem a little too big for the frame.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

Rick is dark, dark comedy at its most hedonistic.

October 14, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Impressive -- and utterly depressing -- feature debut.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

[M]alicious, ironic cruelty dealt with a deft and subtle hand...

September 28, 2004 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
Flick Filosopher

A deliciously bitter tale of lust and betrayal among dog-eat-dog Wall Street bigwigs.

September 24, 2004 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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beware chinese curses. sadly there are really people in the world like this. in the end all this film gave me was a bad feeling in the pit of my gut. meaning the creators did a good job of getting their point across.

May 23, 2007

(***): It is a good movie but it isn't exactly something I'm going to watch again anytime soon. Pullman is good here and you truly do come to hate his character.

December 27, 2008
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