Hard Candy is not perfect, but it is a provocative piece of filmmaking with a dark and daring heart that makes it worth seeing.
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05/02/06
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Hard Candy (2005)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:87
Rotten:42
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Disturbing, controversial, but entirely engrossing, Hard Candy is well written with strong lead performances, especially that of newcomer Ellen Page. A movie that stays with the viewer long after leaving the theater.
Theatrical Release:Apr 14, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,007,962
Synopsis: Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl -- but even smart girls make mistakes. She's hooking up in a coffee shop with Jeff, a guy she's met on the Internet. And even though he's a cute,... [More]
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Holmes
Director: David Slade
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04/28/06
It's well worth seeing, because it is well made -- apart from a few gaps in logic -- and well acted.
04/28/06
Top Critic... a film that gives you something to think about, raising questions that linger long after the theater lights have brightened.
04/28/06
Hard Candy is an exploitation film, with very little happening but a guy getting tortured for about 75 minutes of screen time.
04/28/06
Top CriticThe aptly named Hard Candy is a challenging, flawed but strangely engrossing film.
04/28/06
... icky, incoherent thriller ...
04/28/06
... no matter who does what to whom, what you're looking at is My Torture Session with Andrew, in one way or another.
04/28/06
It's cinematic S&M, a bondage-control game masquerading as a thriller.
04/28/06
... while the film's blunter, more thrillerish and sadistic second half is less unnerving than its bloodless first, it still works as a smarter than usual cat-and-mouse death match.
04/28/06
You might feel like squirming, but you will not want to look away.
04/28/06
The acting is incredible.
04/28/06
... once seen, Hard Candy doesn’t easily give up its grip.
04/28/06
... a revolting piece of work.
04/28/06
Hard Candy not only trips along a tightrope line between exploitation and art; in some ways, that line is its subject.
04/28/06
Top CriticHard Candy is sweet poison indeed.
04/28/06
The questions posed by Hard Candy may not be as profound as the filmmakers believe, but they are enough to keep us thinking for the length of a movie that deftly uses exploitation to explore exploitation.
04/28/06
Top CriticThough it is skillfully made and well-acted, it's also exploitative and nauseating.
04/28/06
Instead of telling a story, Hard Candy cooks up one grueling ordeal after another.
04/28/06
Top CriticHard Candy is tantalizing, brutal, fetishistic, gripping and exhausting, with plenty of moments for movie patrons to shout advice at the screen.
04/28/06
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