It would be tempting to say that fractured time sequences in movies have become a cliché, except that Wicker Park makes your brain spin in surprising and pleasurable ways.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
As the movie approached the end credits, I cared about what happened to these characters, and that made the coincidences and occasional missteps forgivable.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Diane Kruger, whose Lisa is subjected to logical whiplash by the plot, always seems to know when it is and how she should feel. Now that's acting.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
This is a smart movie, full of astonishing reverses and switchbacks, and it adroitly walks the thin line between too clever by half and not clever enough by three-quarters.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Movies that are entertainingly nuts don't come around very often, and when they do they need to be given their due.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dave Kehr
The French original was a clever Hitchcock homage with a murder at its center. For reasons unknown, the murder plot has been dropped from the remake (though a few confusing traces of it remain), which leaves Wicker Park without much real urgency to drive its extremely contrived plot.Read Full Review »
An elegant tale of romantic obsession weighed down by a needlessly convoluted plot that yields far more confusion than psychological suspense.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Takes plenty of twists and turns, each so implausible and silly that you have no interest whatsoever in finding out what the next one will be. The director, Paul McGuigan, is fond of fancy split-screen effects and stylish, snappy cutting, but he can't tell a story to save his life.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: David Hiltbrand
A dementedly artificial and artsy film, a headache-inducing jumble of fractured narrative, flashbacks within flashbacks, and shifting perspectives.Read Full Review »
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