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Movie Review for Shape of Things, The
Movie Review for
Shape of Things, The
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47 Reviews total.
Release date: 5/9/2003
Run length: 97 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Musical/Performing Arts
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Adaptation
Summary:
A contemporary story of love, sex and art, set in a college town, that follows the steadily intensifying relationship between Evelyn and Adam. As Evelyn strengthens her hold on Adam, his emotional and physical evolution discomforts his friends Jenny and Philip, with unexpected consequences for all. By turns, hopeful and harsh, the collegiate quartet deals with the conflicting human desires for autonomy and connection, truth and love, and the notion that seduction is an art.
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Philip Martin
of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (7/0)
...one cannot help but be impressed by the economy and power with which LaBute frames his argumen...
By
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (7/0)
After the muted and sometimes muddle-headed Possession, writer-director Neal LaBute revisits mate...
By
Larry Carroll
of Big Picture (7/0)
Provocateur LaBute not only dramatically throws the 'c' word at us in this film, but he also goes...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
LaBute has that rarest of attributes, a distinctive voice.
By
Mark Caro
of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
Though you still sense some distance between the filmmaker and his creations, he lets you warm up...
By
Jules Brenner
of Cinema Signals (7/0)
The shape of this thing is warped. It's a four-character play masquerading as a movie.
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
of CNN.com (7/0)
This powerful look at society's obsession with looks -- with 'the shape of things' -- will leave ...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
The balanced struggle between and among sexes is engaging for a good chunk of the film.
By
Erik Childress
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
An amazing piece of writing and one that will provoke laughs, discussion and anger.
By
Oz
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
This film is a great lesson in why it’s dumb to walk out of a movie - sometimes the sting is in t...
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
Didactic rather than enigmatic.
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
LaBute is a writer first and a director second. What he does visually is unobtrusive and function...
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Eugene Novikov
of Film Blather (7/0)
What seemed at first to be gross cluelessness became sly calculation; what I saw as blunt moraliz...
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (7/0)
[Labute's] existential rage is cooling in direct proportion to the rise of his self-pitying belie...
By
Jimmy O
of Film Snobs (7/0)
Why is everyone such a ***** when it comes to Neil LaBute?
By
Christopher Null
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
Neil, you're a cruel, cruel man. I knew you had it in you.
By
Duane Byrge
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
LaBute hammers this Shape to smithereens with argument after argument.
By
Eric Harrison
of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
You walk out feeling and thinking differently than when you walked in. Isn't that what art is sup...
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Spence D.
of IGN Movies (7/0)
An interesting, albeit wordy and often vitriolic, take on modern dating and the subjective nature...
By
Andrea Chase
of Killer Movie Reviews (7/0)
[Labute's] is a milieu red in tooth and claw . . . where the innocent are just so much fodder for...
By
Scott Foundas
of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
The Shape of Things may be [LaBute's] best, cruelest, most vital act of confrontation yet.
By
Ryan Cracknell
of Movie Views (7/0)
Thank you Neil LaBute, you bastard. If only there were more like you to challenging us to look a ...
By
Peter Rainer
of New York Magazine (7/0)
LaBute would like us to know that neither sex has a monopoly on behaving very, very badly. Alert ...
By
Dan Lybarger
of Nitrate Online (7/0)
Rachel Weisz's treachery is admittedly fun to watch, but if you've seen any of LaBute's earlier f...
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Mark Sells
of Oregon Herald (7/0)
Harsh, unflattering, and outrageous, it is guaranteed to leave a prolonged impression.
By
Jeanne Aufmuth
of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
The fallout from the discomfiting climax lingers long after the lights have come up.
By
Jeet Thayil
of Rediff.com (7/0)
Little more than a clever undergrad thesis gone awfully wrong, it turns on the less than shocking...
By
Laura Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
There are no surprises to be had in "The Shape of
Things," which telegraphs its twist ending in i...
By
Robin Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
There is also no real emotional investment for the viewer with the characters in “The Shape of Th...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
The Shape of Things is imperfect, but the flaws don't detract much from what is a singularly effe...
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Joe Baltake
of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
Having played these roles for so long and so often, Mol, Rudd, Weller and Weisz fully inhabit the...
By
Jim Judy
of Screen It! (7/0)
Undeniably intriguing and even disturbing. Yet, for various reasons, it's clearly not LaBute's mo...
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
[Plays] like a particularly uninspired episode of Friends.
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
Sadly, the film never overcomes its stage roots.
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
The Shape of Things is another hard-hitting drama by Neil LaBute that explores power plays betwee...
By
Rob Blackwelder
of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
(LaBute) hasn't augment the characters and settings with the additional depth and definition nece...
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Audrey Rock-Richardson
of Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) (7/0)
The Shape of Things shows, yet again, what a singularly talented artist LaBute is--and how his pe...
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (3/4) No reference
Meticulously crafted, ambitious and uproariously funny.
By
Robert Denerstein
of Denver Rocky Mountain News (3/4) No reference
Instead of characters, LaBute seems to have created lab rats, those who chew and those who get ch...
By
Kit Bowen
of Hollywood.com (3/4) No reference
In The Shape of Things, writer/director Neil Labute molds another whopper of a tale about modern ...
By
Josh Bell
of Las Vegas Weekly (3/4) No reference
LaBute's strength is in utilizing so many of those rom-com genre conventions not to celebrate lov...
By
Glenn Whipp
of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
Shape is LaBute spinning his wheels, offering another sour candy to his fans, while deluding hims...
Reviews of Shape of Things, The
By
Shawn Levy
of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
A sharp, witty and surprising film of cutting insights and cool-eyed cynicism.
By
Jay Boyar
of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
There's an immediacy to many scenes that's hard to deny. These people get under your skin and gna...
By
Steve Schneider
of Orlando Weekly (3/4) No reference
The resolution of the Evelyn/Adam dynamic -- the script's true area of interest -- proves worth t...
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (3/4) No reference
This film, like earlier [LaBute] ones, is a precise little jewel box of misanthropy -- of men and...
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) No reference
A great play becomes a bad movie.
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