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03/24/02
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
They're not calling it Wild Things for nothing.
02/11/08
Top CriticThis 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
...Bacon's pork sword alone is not worth the price of admission.
01/01/00
Aging sexpot Theresa Russell gets the most Skinemax-worthy moment in a picture that purports to humour jailbait fiends
03/31/04
It is my dreary duty to report that Wild Things ... lacks fantasy and flamboyance, that it lacks, precisely, wild things, and that most of it is just flat.
01/01/00
Top Criticit's cheezy as cheetos,
01/01/00
The script by Stephen Peters exploits one twist after another, until they seem as manipulative as Richards' wet T-shirt.
01/01/00
I've seen more convincing drama (with nearly as much bare flesh) on that pinnacle of narrative quality, Baywatch.
01/01/00
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05/14/03
An extremely self-conscious attempt to make Body Heat for the Scream set, the movie is so utterly repellent and so stupidly manipulative that it makes TV's Melrose Place look like Masterpiece Theater.
01/01/00
What I'm supposed to find 'satisfying' is predicated on the idea that almost everyone in the world is trash.
02/11/08
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01/01/00
...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
One of those thankfully rare pictures that makes every man and woman it portrays seem hollow and insubstantial.
01/10/03
Call it gratuitous annoyance.
04/25/03
Wild Things gets into trouble when it aspires to be more than a sex exploitation movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticIf Hollywood is going to insist on making awful films, the least it could do is make them as wonderfully, hilariously awful as Wild Things.
01/01/00
Laughably bad.
01/01/00
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