The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability.
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02/11/08
Wild Things (1998)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:35
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A seemingly virtuous high school guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon), is accused of raping students Kelly (Denise Richards) and Suzie (Neve Campbell). Ken Bowden (Bill Murray), an... [More]
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards
Director: John McNaughton
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Reviews for Wild Things
Top CriticWhat I'm supposed to find 'satisfying' is predicated on the idea that almost everyone in the world is trash.
02/11/08
Top CriticThey're not calling it Wild Things for nothing.
02/11/08
Top CriticA sleazy, seamy, flashy, steamy, vulgar exploitation thriller that revels in every minute of its own trashiness and delivers some pretty solid -- if prurient -- entertainment.
02/11/08
Sly, torrid and original, pic is certain to shake up an otherwise complacent marketplace.
02/11/08
Top Critic[It's got] Neve Campbell and Denise Richards making out, all the plot twists and double-crossing of a James Ellroy novel, Neve Campbell and Denise Richards having a catfight in a swimming pool and Bill Murray as a sleazy neck-brace-wearing lawyer.
08/14/07
Top CriticI heartily recommend Wild Things for its fits of teasing and eroticism (rare in American cinema) and for Bill Murray who has a great role as Lombardo's attorney.
05/26/06
This is one of those puzzle movies that's quite intriguing while it's feigning superficiality -- and truly funny when Bill Murray is around -- but really dumb once it thinks it's being smart.
01/26/06
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04/02/05
Wild Things plays like a long Twilight Zone episode with a thick Everglades breeze to it. READ ON (DVD)->
05/19/04
One of those films for which the phrase 'guilty pleasure' was invented.
05/12/04
Aging sexpot Theresa Russell gets the most Skinemax-worthy moment in a picture that purports to humour jailbait fiends
03/31/04
Good, trashy fun, with gratuitous sex and nudity, a ludicrous (in a so-bad-it's-funny way) performance by Denise Richards, and an implausible noir plot that keeps you in the dark until the final credits. The ultimate guilty pleasure.
08/11/03
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05/14/03
Call it gratuitous annoyance.
04/25/03
Top CriticOne of those thankfully rare pictures that makes every man and woman it portrays seem hollow and insubstantial.
01/10/03
What “Titanic” supplied for female teens, “Wild Things” will supply for their male counterparts.
01/04/03
...even though the action is spiced up with kinky sex, a quick flash of male frontal nudity and long, lingering shots of voluptuous girls in skimpy clothes, there's a peculiar lifelessness about the whole affair.
10/15/02
Personally, even though I think that the film's too twisted to be believable, I enjoyed it.
09/10/02
This tale of revenge does manage to sidestep cliches and predictability found in this genre, but it goes too far out of the lines to be appreciated.
06/05/02
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