75
A refined, tasteful film about pure, hard lust.
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60
Despite his natty wardrobe and calculated sangfroid, Penn doesn't summon up quite the right image.
60
The Haases, whose previous films ("Angels and Insects," "The Music of Chance") evinced a remote, unfussy sensibility, are a poor fit for the melodramatic contortions that the story demands.
50
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
The characters are so conventional that the movie has nowhere interesting to go, even when a corpse complicates affairs.
42
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Politics is almost an afterthought in this balky, attenuated film.
50
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The surprise is how tame and passionless it all seems, particularly after director Philip Haas's fevered "Angels and Insects."
75
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
It's a corker of a story - a polished yarn full of desire, desperation and despair.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
This whole movie is about manners. There is sex and violence, but the movie is not about giving in to them; it's about carrying on as if they didn't exist.
60
Impressive supporting cast---, in character parts both expanded and invented, enrich the enterprise.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
It has some wonderful moments and a handful of delicious Maughamian characters.