A mess structurally, and any attempt to make sense of its non-linear narrative is guaranteed to bring on an instant migraine.
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09/02/04
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Wicker Park (2004)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:27
Rotten:91
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.
Theatrical Release:Sep 3, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $12,831,121
Synopsis: In remaking the 1996 French thriller L'APPARTEMENT, director Paul McGuigan transplants the story to the snow-covered Windy City, Chicago. Josh Hartnett is Matthew, a good-looking young man who has... [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne
Director: Paul McGuigan
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Reviews for Wicker Park
Top CriticAn elegant tale of romantic obsession weighed down by a needlessly convoluted plot that yields far more confusion than psychological suspense.
09/02/04
Top CriticA film with more unbelievable coincidences than a Henry Fielding novel, more plot holes than a Swiss cheese and populated with the stock characters of that Hollywood world, that cinematic parallel universe.
09/02/04
Top CriticA stilted, episodic tale of obsession that grows more ridiculous by the second.
09/02/04
Top CriticIts mood swings jump from erotic thriller to wistful romance, and its final explanatory moments play like a weak comic farce.
09/02/04
Top CriticNothing in the movie is what it appears to be, which is unfortunate since, at the outset at least, what it appears to be is interesting.
09/02/04
Thirty years after Brian De Palma riffed on Hitchcock’s Vertigo with Obsession, MGM and Lakeshore Productions decide to add insult to injury.
09/02/04
Like a perpetual motion machine that careens crazily along until it collapses under its own weight; its cleverness outruns itself, and its intricacy trails off into absurdity.
09/02/04
Hartnett is far too stolid to convey the frazzled desperation required by McGuigan's soporific romantic mystery Wicker Park.
09/02/04
A classy psychological thriller that challenges the audience to keep up with it.
09/02/04
To work, it has to make us feel crazy with love, like Vertigo did. Instead, it often just makes us feel crazy for believing any of it.
09/02/04
Top CriticThis poorly acted romantic thriller is an abysmal mess.
09/02/04
Wicker Park isn't very good, but it is fixable. The biggest problems are caused when director Paul McGuigan is trying to do too much.
09/02/04
McGuigan could have done better with a more energetic lead than Hartnett, who seems to have studied at the Keanu Reeves School of Emotional Expression.
09/02/04
Visually interesting enough to make up for several weak plot points.
09/02/04
Three of the four leads are terrible (but) keen and cunning storytelling makes it possible to see Wicker Park for its strengths despite its tremendous weaknesses.
09/02/04
...impressed me enough to want to recommend the film to anyone who...
09/01/04
It stars Josh Hartnett and Diane Kruger, two excruciatingly lightweight actors with zero chemistry.
09/01/04
there’s a je ne sais quoi about the film that transcends what might otherwise be mere art for art’s sake and makes it pleasantly enjoyable
09/01/04
tricks the audience into deceiving itself before unraveling another set of assumptions by deftly shifting the point of view
09/01/04
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