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The Center of the World (2001)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 53

For all its tease, the movie doesn't have more to say than money can't buy you love.

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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 21

For all its tease, the movie doesn't have more to say than money can't buy you love.

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In this digitally shot feature from acclaimed director Wayne Wang) (The Joy Luck Club), the boundaries of sexual relations are put to the test by two individuals. Richard (Peter Sarsgaard) is a dot-com entrepreneur who, despite earning millions of dollars, feels little connection to the outside world. After frequenting a strip club, he offers Florence (Molly Parker), a sometime-stripper who also works as a drummer, $10,000 dollars to accompany him to Las Vegas for a short stay. She makes him a

Dec 18, 2001

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All Critics (89) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (54) | DVD (13)

Why is it that "prestige" sex films, made by name directors and featuring estimable players, are usually so boring?

May 25, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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There's something numbingly predictable about Wang's whole approach.

May 24, 2001 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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Enough to send you running from the theater, yawning.

May 14, 2001 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Wang is working on your mind, not your body.

May 11, 2001 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Way off-center in any world.

May 11, 2001 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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We leave the theater thinking less about how the film made us feel or think than the mechanics of how it was put together.

May 4, 2001 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
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...rings with a perfectly hollow pitch that's a digital video punch to the solar plexus.

July 20, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Utilizando o sexo como ponte para estudar seus personagens, o diretor Wayne Wang cria um filme interessante, mas não totalmente satisfatório.

November 18, 2003 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Retains the dreaded essence of voyeurism dressed as art.

February 13, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

The dramatic push and pull of the budding relationship is not terribly original in and of itself -but in its ambiguities the movie soars.

May 30, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Experience | Comment
Film Experience

Peter Sarsgaard and Molly Parker bare just about everything, without really bringing the characters to life.

February 28, 2002 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | Comment
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A very modern, somewhat disquieting look at sex and relationships in the modern world.

September 23, 2006
Beefy
Steve K

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Depressing as hell and rather self-contained, The Center of the World is a dull, dreary story, shot on the cheap with an ugly, hyper-real aesthetic but a somewhat unbelievable starting point. Richard, a successful but socially inadequate computer engineer, meets Molly, a drummer in an aspiring rock group, iand decides

September 4, 2008
danieljparsons

Super Reviewer

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