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Wicker Park (2004)

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23

Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 121
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 93

Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.

22

Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 25

Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 54,763

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Movie Info

Directed by Paul McGuigan, Wicker Park follows Chicago businessman Matthew's (Josh Hartnett) return to Windy City life after having dedicated two years of his life to mourning his long lost love Lisa (Diane Kruger), who'd mysteriously vanished from his life. Things are finally looking up again for Matthew; his career is in full swing, and he's thinking of becoming engaged -- that is, until he thinks he's spotted his former lover in a restaurant. Almost immediately, Matthew puts the brakes on his

PG-13,

Drama, Romance, Mystery & Suspense

Brandon Boyce

Dec 28, 2004

$12.8M

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All Critics (128) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (93) | DVD (20)

A shapeless mess.

September 10, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment (1)
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I am giving it thumbs up because of a very attractive cast and they do a wonderful job with what they got.

September 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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Makes your brain spin in surprising and pleasurable ways.

September 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
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This film is genuinely interested in getting us inside the heads of its three leads (Matthew, Alex, and Lisa). It wants us to understand, although not necessarily sympathize with, all three of them.

September 6, 2004 Full Review Source: ReelViews
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Takes plenty of twists and turns, each so implausible and silly that you have no interest whatsoever in finding out what the next one will be.

September 4, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment (1)
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McGuigan seems to have invested more in the youth and glamour of his cast than in a plausible and exacting script.

September 3, 2004
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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This dopey thriller isn't worth your time.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

The filmmakers cannot decide what sort of story they want to tell, and as a result, the story they tell isn't really worth the telling.

November 17, 2006
Christianity Today

Wicker Park frustrates to no end when a smidgen of common sense on anyone's behalf would clear up everything.

April 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

A nice example of what happens to a Hitchcock shrine when it's filtered through a slick punk sensibility.

February 16, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central
Film Freak Central

That Wicker Park becomes as engrossing as it does is particularly shocking, given the almost interminable opening hour...

January 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

Weightless, dim-witted treacle.

September 20, 2004 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Take a pretty good script, a pretty good Director, and a horrible cast, and what you get is Wicker Park.

September 18, 2004 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | Comment (1)

High style masks rather than updates what's essentially conventional in the material, and the plot unfolds on a seeming need-to-know basis. It's aggravating.

September 17, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

Something, Je ne sais quoi, was lost in translation when the French thriller L'Appartement was remade into this obtuse romantic mystery.

September 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly

Deep down, it's a very bad joke.

September 15, 2004
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

I usually prefer a film that stays in a logical sequence but Josh Hartnett is a captivating kind of guy who holds your attention throughout the flashback sequences.

September 14, 2004 Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum
Entertainment Spectrum

A dull melodrama marked by plot coincidences of staggering stupidity.

September 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

This process raises an array of questions, some relevant to the central plot and some just irritating.

September 10, 2004 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

Being nonlinear means never having to make sense. Without its digressions and flash-forwards, Wicker Park's plot would barely fill two minutes of screen time.

September 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly
Orlando Weekly

Doesn't lead to much beyond weepy melodrama.

September 9, 2004 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly

It's a sad day indeed when a movie's most memorable performance belongs to Scooby Doo's Matthew Lillard.

September 8, 2004 Full Review
Las Vegas Mercury

This is a great date movie. Handholding can get quite serious during the film's many intense scenes.

September 8, 2004 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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Audience Reviews for Wicker Park

Have actually upped my rating to 4 stars from 3 1/2 - very unusual for that to happen - usually the other way round!! I can't really remember watching this the first time.... well, only vaguely... though I guess I must have as i have the dvd in my collection. Really enjoyed this the second time around, as I couldn't remember it too well at all, I had forgotten all the twists, so it was still a surprise rewatching it.
I found this very well done - the filming is quite stylish, the cast really good (maybe with the exception of Matthew Lilliard who I can never quite take seriously, but he plays a bit of a joker as usual anyhow, so I could wear this one). Josh Hartnett very convincing and works really well with Diane Kruger as Lisa - found them both really enthralling here. Quite an erotic film without being overly graphic. Rose Byrne I also found quite sympathetic - won't say too much about her character here!
Above average thriller, nice to look at, and never lags or gets dull. Enjoyed this a lot!
January 16, 2008
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I don't know, either you're on board with Wicker Park or you're not. I think you have to look past its definite shortcomings to wring out the quality: for Josh Hartnett's stony, inarticulate performance and Matthew Lillard's completely inappropriate casting, you then have Diane Kruger and Rose Byrne, both excellent in their roles. Byrne especially does fantastic work with the least screen time of the four; she shows up late and to say much would be a spoiler, but she really digs into every angle of the character and presents some interesting complications in the story. For every time the soundtrack features some God-awful rock song highlighting a "torrid" sex scene, it'll find an inventive and challenging combination like a modern dance sequence set to Mum, or a lonely stroll through the park scored by Broken Social Scene. And considering how convoluted and ultimately kind of silly the plot gets, it's surprising that it offers up such an understated look at love versus obsession, and how effectively it blurs the line sometimes.

I wasn't really aware of the world around me when this came out but I imagine it was marketed pretty heavily as a typical thriller. In that regard, it's an utter disappointment; the worst that could possibly happen to poor Matthew is being trapped in a moderately uncomfortable corporate marriage. If the stakes don't seem higher, I think that's partially Hartnett's fault, because he just doesn't sell much to me in the scope of this movie. I think that this falls in the same category of film as Enduring Love, where the sum is worth more than its parts and everything seems to gel despite itself. Something you'd watch once, dwell on fondly and never come back to. Which is good, but really, this film could have been better.
September 14, 2009
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    1. Matthew: I'm going to China tonight, I'm practically engaged-- do I need to remind you?
    2. Luke: The lies we tell ourselves.
    – Submitted by Folashade K (2 months ago)
    1. Luke: So she had the same name, same perfume, same shoe size. That's so hot. Or, or maybe that's just creepy.
    2. Matthew: I think it's a little bit of both, actually.
    – Submitted by Folashade K (2 months ago)
    1. Matthew: Things don't have to be extraordinary to be beautiful. Even the ordinary can be beautiful.
    – Submitted by Folashade K (2 months ago)
    1. Alex: You want a cup of coffee?
    2. Matthew: Yeah, sure. Thanks.
    3. Alex: No. No. No. No.
    4. Alex: He broke all my cups.
    5. Matthew: That's original.
    – Submitted by Folashade K (2 months ago)
    1. Matthew: I needed you to know.
    2. Rebecca: Know what? Know what, Matthew? That I'm not the girl who can break your heart?
    – Submitted by Folashade K (2 months ago)
    1. Lisa: Take my picture. I'm feeling beautiful tonight.
    – Submitted by Folashade K (2 months ago)

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