The cast is a pitch-perfect assemblage of pretty young things, but James Van Der Beek, as a slit-eyed dorm stud, proves that he can be an actor of cruel force.Read Full Review »
80
Time: Richard Corliss
Sex, drugs and rack 'n' ruin; pretty people doing nasty things to one another...honestly, what more could you want in a movie?Read Full Review »
80
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Rules needs that dose of hilarity. Ellis' satire, filtered through Avary's harsh lens, is hard to stomach, harder to ignore.Read Full Review »
75
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
At times darkly funny and at other times depressingly tragic. It's safe to say there aren't any movies out there quite like this one.Read Full Review »
Roger Avary's crisp adaptation imbues the copious bad sex and general befuddlement of Bret Easton Ellis's solemn, echt '80s Bennington novel with a playfully obnoxious energy that is often funny and -- almost fun.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The movie feels more like a walk across campus than a movie. That's so depressing. On the other hand, each of these lost children is really looking for the same thing, ol' Mr. Love.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
If there's one thing Avary gets right, it's the brutal use-or-be-used approach to interpersonal relations that Ellis laid out with numbing detail, and James Van Der Beek is down to the challenge as Sean Bateman: horndog, cokehead, ceramics major, and all-around jerk.Read Full Review »
50
Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Although it would be understatement to call their characters unsympathetic, Van Der Beek and Sossamon play their parts with such doomed passion that they have some affecting moments.Read Full Review »
50
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
There is no entry portal in The Rules of Attraction, and I spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow, selfish, greedy characters. I wanted to be at another party.Read Full Review »
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