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Ripley's Game (2002)

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The cool and mannered sociopath Tom Ripley returns to the big screen in director Liliana Cavani's 2002 crime thriller Ripley's Game, adapted from the 1974 novel by Patricia Highsmith. Living a life of luxury as an art dealer in northern Italy with his musician wife Luisa (Chiara Caselli), Ripley (John Malkovich) attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny (Dougray Scott) and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his

Mar 30, 2004

New Line Cinema

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As slithery and seductive a thriller as you'll find.

March 11, 2004 Comment
Rolling Stone
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Arguably the most satisfying distillation of Highsmith's nastiness, ingenuity and humor, with the added dividend of Mr. Malkovich's diabolical charm and insouciance.

February 26, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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The movie may, late in Cavani's career, come to be seen as her best work.

February 11, 2004 Comment
New Yorker
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Malkovich's elegantly malicious performance gives Ripley's Game a magnetic center.

September 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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See this film for its story and for Malkovich' performance, or if you are easily distracted and irritated, buy the book and imagine everything yourself instead.

August 3, 2004 Full Review Source: european-films.net | Comment (1)
european-films.net

Ripley's Game draws you in with its virtuoso performances and moody aura of menace.

May 27, 2004 Comment
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Representative of the fear and loathing attendant to the death rattle of domestic culture.

April 18, 2004 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

Now we have the real Ripley: John Malkovich.

April 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

John Malkovich [delivers] a performance that's as playful as it is perverse.

March 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | Comment
Creative Loafing

Não é surpresa constatar que John Malkovich se revela o melhor entre os quatro intérpretes do personagem.

March 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Cinema em Cena

Malkovich steals the show and director Liliana Cavani ... does a perfectly serviceable job.

September 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
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My predicting rating: 3.5 A film that is reasonably slow moving in parts and yet still manages to be intriguing. It does lack a little psychological feel to it, but John Malkovich is one smooth criminal in this, watchable, but lacked a little something.

June 29, 2007
76Majikat

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Uhhh well shocked really at how much i didnt really enjoy it compared with the reviews its had! Fantastic cast brilliant scenery , nice acting but the storyline just wasnt as good as id hope to be honest! for a psychological thriller its not very manipulative or physcho really i mean first he doesnt like the guy and

May 25, 2008
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    1. Tom Ripley: It never used to be so crowded in first class.
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