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This catastrophic adaptation of Patrick McGrath's novel gets sillier and more implausible as it goes along.
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Asylum had promise. But it's bad enough to make one wonder just who had the loose screws -- the characters, or the people who filmed them? Sep 16, 2005 | Rating: 2/5
Asylum had promise. But it's bad enough to make one wonder just who had the loose screws -- the characters, or the people who filmed them?
Roger Moore
Patrick McGrath's screenplay, based on his novel, has moments big and small, delivered in appropriate dollops of awfulness. Sep 16, 2005 | Rating: B-
Patrick McGrath's screenplay, based on his novel, has moments big and small, delivered in appropriate dollops of awfulness.
Tom Long
It's a movie you fall for or you don't, and like Stella, I am not ashamed I did. Sep 16, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
It's a movie you fall for or you don't, and like Stella, I am not ashamed I did.
Terry Lawson
Once characters' actions lose credibility, it's hard to empathize with them, no matter how well the roles are played. Sep 15, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Once characters' actions lose credibility, it's hard to empathize with them, no matter how well the roles are played.
Jeff Strickler
The film, with its uniformly terrific cast, stern Gothic overtones and steady but measured pacing, is a crisp, old-fashioned delight, eschewing cheap tricks for repeated tiny pricks of unease that work up to a continuous gnawing dread. Sep 2, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The film, with its uniformly terrific cast, stern Gothic overtones and steady but measured pacing, is a crisp, old-fashioned delight, eschewing cheap tricks for repeated tiny pricks of unease that work up to a continuous gnawing dread.
Connie Ogle
Asylum is all very formal, detached, and, regrettably, sane. Aug 29, 2005
Asylum is all very formal, detached, and, regrettably, sane.
David Edelstein
offers a bleak vision of the Fifties, where an outbreak of passion or an artistic impulse would be quickly subjected, like any other madness, to containment. Jul 2, 2007 | Full Review…
offers a bleak vision of the Fifties, where an outbreak of passion or an artistic impulse would be quickly subjected, like any other madness, to containment.
Anton Bitel
A little like Jack the Ripper in outer space. Mar 26, 2007
A little like Jack the Ripper in outer space.
Prairie Miller
Despite a superb cast, artful set design and seductive cinematography, Asylum remains a lovingly lensed missed opportunity. Feb 22, 2007 | Full Review…
Despite a superb cast, artful set design and seductive cinematography, Asylum remains a lovingly lensed missed opportunity.
Rex Roberts
There is nothing to Stella's character -- or any of these characters, for that matter -- that you can relate to. Sep 15, 2005 | Rating: 2/4
There is nothing to Stella's character -- or any of these characters, for that matter -- that you can relate to.
Piet Levy
So obsessed with rendering Patrick McGrath's exquisitely twisted Gothic novel as a refined affair that it forgets less ambitious pursuits, like sussing out a way to keep us awake. Sep 15, 2005 | Full Review…
So obsessed with rendering Patrick McGrath's exquisitely twisted Gothic novel as a refined affair that it forgets less ambitious pursuits, like sussing out a way to keep us awake.
Ian Grey
Based on Pat McCabe's moody novel, Asylum has an over-the-top feverishness that suits its premise. Sep 15, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
Based on Pat McCabe's moody novel, Asylum has an over-the-top feverishness that suits its premise.
Chris Hewitt
I think she got what she deserved!
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