In the Cut Reviews

Weak plot with grisly middle; should've been NC-17.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: D

... a curious mistake rather than a disaster

Full Review | Original Score: D+

...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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Too self-consciously arty and irregularly paced.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Interesting throughout with an intriguing female slant not seen in most steamy psycho-thrillers.

| Original Score: B+

The movie builds slowly, slowly, slowly, towards a truly stupid climax

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The impression left is that one can turn a serial-killer movie into a pretentious art-house film, but why would you want to?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

It's an experiment that's only partially successful. As a character study, In the Cut is sublime; as a murder mystery, however, the film is slightly ridiculous.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Jane Campion, best known for the ugly and overrated The Piano, has tried her hand at a mainstream film.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

A movie that moves between pretentious and incompetent, a sleazy straight-to-video-style sex and violence crapfest which ends up simply laughable when it tries to go arty.

| Original Score: 1/4

A minutely etched study in mood and female psychology.

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Elegantly shot but poorly assembled, Campion's fractured film [has] . . . a lot of vivid blood and guts, but no head and brains to control the flow of passion.

In the Cut seemed better by its end than it did in its beginning, it seemed creepier the next morning...and its power only increased on a second viewing.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Shifting focus within individual shots, playing background city noises louder than dialogue, and covering everything in a yellow-urine haze, it's a forced approach to dread.

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"In the Cut" is like a professionally wrapped package with a mound of garbage inside.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4