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In the Cut (2003)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 145
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 97

Ryan is very good playing against type, but Campion's good-looking thriller is far from thrilling.

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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 26

Ryan is very good playing against type, but Campion's good-looking thriller is far from thrilling.

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 12,092

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Jane Campion directs the erotic thriller In the Cut, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Susanna Moore. Set in New York City during the summertime, the film is centered on Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a middle-class English teacher in the midst of researching a book project about colloquial language. One night she accidentally witnesses a sexual situation involving a suspected killer, which may make her valuable to a police investigation. When Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) comes to her

R, 1 hr. 58 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Jane Campion, Susanna Moore

Feb 10, 2004

$4.7M

Sony Pictures

Cast

All Critics (160) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (98) | DVD (22)

I found the movie reasonably absorbing from moment to moment.

November 6, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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[T]he character that Meg Ryan is playing so well here is so compelling. I think it's a wonderful performance that the movie is worth seeing for that.

November 3, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
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More of an intriguing project than a satisfying experience.

October 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Belabored and muddled movie, whose dreamy visual style and daring sexual material can't elide glaring inconsistencies in tone, plot and logic.

October 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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When In The Cut is good, it is very good.

October 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Unquestionably the most ambitious and important film to come along in months.

October 31, 2003 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Weak plot with grisly middle; should've been NC-17.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

A failed thriller, if a thriller it was intended to be. But it is a great success as... a study of female sexual psychology in a world of hypermasculine violence.

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

Should a movie be penalized for failing to be something it never tried or aspired to be? Perhaps the marketing is to blame, or the hype surrounding Meg Ryan's nudity.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Like a long-lost relic from an earlier period best forgotten.

May 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

... a curious mistake rather than a disaster

January 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

...would've been a whole lot better if it had been about 30 minutes shorter, but as it is, it's a barely passable thriller.

June 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Too self-consciously arty and irregularly paced.

June 20, 2004 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | Comment

É uma pena constatar que, afinal de contas, Meg Ryan tirou a roupa por um filme que, ironicamente, também se encontra despido. Neste caso, de méritos artísticos.

April 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Cinema em Cena

A flaccid thriller as lifeless as the film's many decapitated corpses.

April 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for In the Cut

Cast: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kevin Bacon, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh Director: Jane Campion Summary: Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a New York writing professor entwined in an erotic affair with a police detective (Mark Ruffalo) who's investigating the murder of a young woman in Frannie's neighborhood.

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"in the cut" was an erotic novel written by susanna moore before jane campion adapted it into a woman's picture stirred with family drama, romance, trust. gore and sex. i read that damned novel before i watched the picture, which didn't interest me at all for the sake of meg ryan (=chick flick).jane campion tends to

June 5, 2010
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