Asylum Reviews
August 17, 2005
Tells its gritty, weepy story well enough to satisfy those who crave a little more melodrama and madness in their lives.
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| Original Score: B-
August 12, 2005
If you dig legitimately creepy thrillers, you'd be crazy to miss Asylum.
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| Original Score: A-
August 12, 2005
Strong performances by a very good cast, especially a brooding, sexual animal-killer Marton Csokas, highlight Patrick Marber's exceptional script.
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| Original Score: 8/10
August 12, 2005
In the callused hands of director David Mackenzie...the rigorously tough-minded Asylum lives up to its potential as a modern masterpiece of psychological terror.
Original Score: 4/4
August 12, 2005
Terrifically entertaining and powerful.
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| Original Score: A
August 11, 2005
Patrick McGrath's novel provides a solid and suspenseful story, even if it loses much of its bite in Mackenzie's hands.
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| Original Score: 3/4
August 11, 2005
Benefits from barbed exchanges, gritty period detail and its fine cast.
Original Score: 2.5/4
August 11, 2005
An intense and haunting drama with four memorable performances
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| Original Score: 9/10
August 11, 2005
A leanly structured, richly detailed and artistically thrilling work that is one of the most important films of the year.
August 11, 2005
Natasha Richardson in an intense performance as a passionate woman who risks all to satisfy her desires.
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| Original Score: 3/5
August 5, 2005
Penetrating look at a self-destructive woman, the victim of passion.
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| Original Score: B+
July 28, 2005
All the passion dynamics of a Harlequin novel but an outstanding cast offers the drama considerable therapy.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5