In the Cut

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In the Cut

R

2003

1h 58m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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An English teacher (Meg Ryan) has an affair with a detective (Mark Ruffalo), though she suspects him of murdering a woman.

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Critics Consensus

Director/co-writer Jane Campion takes a stab at subverting the psycho-sexual thriller genre with In the Cut, but gets tangled in her own abstraction.

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Kathleen Sachs

Chicago Reader

12/27/2022

Campion’s In the Cut is a criminally neglected masterpiece...

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Philippa Snow

New Statesman

02/18/2021

In the Cut is masterful in its suggestion of the ambient, omnipresent air of sexual threat that exists in traditional heterosexual dynamics.

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Joshua Rothkopf

In These Times

03/16/2020

Meg Ryan is desperately, unpersuasively naked in Jane Campion's ludicrous erotic thriller...

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Ray Pride

Newcity

02/13/2025

10/10

A raw, tactile consideration of the mystery and suspense of touch and want. Her style is gorgeous and discomfiting, with febrile camera moves, warm yet cloacal lighting, gestures in ruby-and-amber haze.

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Diana Tuova

Loud and Clear Reviews

11/12/2024

4/5

Campion paired a crime story with her heroine’s transformative, erotically-charged journey of self-discovery, and the result is a luscious drama of much emotional insight...

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Justine Smith

Vague Visages

06/06/2024

In The Cut doesn’t quite bring together all its disparate threads. The film thrives as it tackles the cerebral and contradictory desires of Frannie, but can’t quite wrap up the murder mystery in the story.

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Jo S.

@jos10 Jan 4

I need to rewatch it to focus on the aspects of the film I liked besides the soft you-know-what (couldn’t think of a euphemism.)

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Alain E

@AlainE Jun 14

Visually superb with saturated colors in low lighting. The story creates ambiguity about the character played by Mark Ruffalo. Meg Ryan looks lovely and interprets her conflicted persona very well. The movie rewards the patient viewer, but obviously its intended audience is not people who want to see a classic crime movie.

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angela g

@Sunflower378 01/06/2025

I liked this movie it was really good the whodunit story is good the acting is great from meg Ryan Mark r Kevin bacon jenifer Jason league really good movie watch it

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Hurtin F

@RT72573961 10/12/2024

I used to like Meg Ryan, but I was shocked by her role in this. She plays the dumbest skank I've ever seen.. and having known a few dumb as rocks skanks in my life, not one was as dumb or as skanky as Meg in this stupid movie, to the point that I found her level of stupid skankiness completely unbelievable. Hard pass.

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Tammy D

@RT35329443 10/05/2024

what a waste of time. low grade soft porn at best. no real storyline. I will never get those minutes back

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Steven t

@SST609 09/23/2024

Really good idea for the movie but it just doesn't work. The look of the.movie is great with a 80s Trinity look and feel. However it just doesn't come together.

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Synopsis

An English teacher (Meg Ryan) has an affair with a detective (Mark Ruffalo), though she suspects him of murdering a woman.

Director: Jane Campion
Producer: Laurie Parker, Nicole Kidman
Screenwriter: Jane Campion, Susanna Moore, Susanna Moore
Distributor: Screen Gems
Production Co: Red Turtle, Pathé Productions Inc., Pathé Pictures
Rating: R (Graphic Crime Scenes|Explicit Dialogue|Language|Nudity|Strong Sexuality)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 24, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.7M
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Surround

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