In a sense, it's a Rorschach test of what it's like to be single, 40ish, female and living alone in New York City.
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In the Cut (2003)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:48
Rotten:96
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Ryan is very good playing against type, but Campion's good-looking thriller is far from thrilling.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 22, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $4,717,455
Synopsis: The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of... [More]
Starring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Jane Campion
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Reviews for In the Cut
Top CriticAs a straight-up erotic thriller, In the Cut is too self-possessed, scattered and moody to function.
10/30/03
Top CriticBy no means a disaster, but neither is it the wholly satisfying, sexy suspenser that was Klute.
10/30/03
In the Cut is several cuts below.
10/30/03
Top CriticMeg Ryan took her shirt off for this?
10/30/03
My advice is to ignore the plot holes and zero in on Campion's meticulous, non-judgmental direction and Ryan's searing performance.
10/30/03
Top CriticA movie that frustrates as much as it entertains because it promises more than it can deliver.
10/30/03
Campion impudently sabotages her star's history, and Ryan, joining the plot, makes Frannie come alive, looking as provocatively out of place as Diane Keaton did playing the nymphomaniac teacher in the sexual hell of 1977's Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
10/30/03
Top CriticIn the Cut will forever cement Jane Campion's status as the art-house Russ Meyer.
10/29/03
Quickly deteriorates into a jumbled mess of naked limbs and muddled plot.
10/29/03
A fascinating, invasive little movie... it tries to flip misogynist masturbation fantasies on their backs and into woman-on-top affirmations.
10/29/03
A work impressively realized, and all involved deserve acclaim.
10/29/03
This is not the kind of movie that's going to make anyone any money anytime soon... but I dug it nonetheless.
10/29/03
Fans of Moores book will be pleased with the job Campion has done with bringing it to the screen.
10/28/03
Campion creates a nearly lethal dose of emotion-deprivation, turning spine tickling dread into something nearly dreadful.
10/27/03
This strange, often dense film will either suck you into its rather demented vortex or it will leave you dazed and confused, dismissing it as nothing more than a heavy-handed, almost laughable attempt at modern noir.
10/26/03
The script by Campion and Susanna Moore ... begins in implausibility and, along with Frannie's psyche, quickly unravels.
10/26/03
It's glum, muddy and muddled, a gory murder-mystery told bloodlessly, as in without any juice to the storytelling.
10/26/03
wants to discomfit us by delving into the psychological underpinnings of sex and violence and yet succeeds only in making us feel sorry for the people who tried so hard and came up with bupkis
10/25/03
There's a theme that runs through In the Cut: Men are psychos; women are pathetic.
10/24/03
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