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Movie Review for Wicker Park
Movie Review for
Wicker Park
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Wicker Park | | |
| Also known as: | L'Appartement, The Apartment (Lakeshore/MGM Remake) |
36 Reviews total.
Release date: 9/3/2004
Run length: 115 mins.
Categories:
Thriller
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Drama
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Romance
Summary:
From the moment Matthew sees Lisa, nothing else matters. She walks past the window of the shop where he works in the Wicker Park section of Chicago, and he’s immediately captivated; he follows her, they meet, and soon they fall deeply in love. Everything about their relationship seems perfect--until the day she disappears without a trace. Two years later, Matt has built a new life for himself, but he’s still haunted by her memory and the nagging torment of unanswered questions. Then he catches a quick glimpse of someone he thinks must be her in a bar--but is it? Thus begins a twisting, obsessive search for the woman who captured his heart years ago--and for someone who’s playing with his mind right now. Matthew’s search for the truth will lead him deeper into the mystery, with each discovery more deceiving than the next. Obsession can go both ways, and Matthew discovers it’s possible to love someone too much.
Reviews of Wicker Park
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
McGuigan could have done better with a more energetic lead than Hartnett, who seems to have studi...
By
Emily Blunt
of Blunt Review (8/0)
Oh dear readers run to another theater and don't look back...
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Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (8/0)
...strange, enjoyable...
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Thomas Delapa
of Boulder Weekly (8/0)
Something, Je ne sais quoi, was lost in translation when the French thriller L’Appartement was re...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
...works because the actors invest their scenes with...astonishing emotional realism.
By
Michael Wilmington
of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
...an improbable but sometimes barmily entertaining...
Reviews of Wicker Park
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (8/0)
Josh Hartnett sleepwalks.
By
Peter Sobczynski
of Critic Doctor (8/0)
'Wicker Park' is so forgettable that I needed to dig up the press kit in order to remember the na...
By
Christopher Null
of E! Online (8/0)
...there's a je ne sais quoi about the film that transcends what might otherwise be mere art ...
By
Vince Koehler
of Entertainment Spectrum (8/0)
I usually prefer a film that stays in a logical sequence but Josh Hartnett is a captivating kind ...
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (8/0)
A nice example of what happens to a Hitchcock shrine when it's filtered through a slick punk sens...
By
Christopher Null
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
there’s a je ne sais quoi about the film that transcends what might otherwise be mere art for art...
Reviews of Wicker Park
By
Brian Orndorf
of FilmJerk.com (8/0)
It’s a softer portrait of mental instability, and a revenge picture mixed with Splenda instead of...
By
Michael Rechtshaffen
of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
A stilted, episodic tale of obsession that grows more ridiculous by the second...
By
Derek Tse
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
A fairly engrossing look at the havoc obsession can wreak on people's lives.
By
James Sanford
of Kalamazoo Gazette (8/0)
For some, this will be an enjoyable mystery to sort out; for others it's a headache waiting to ha...
By
Chuck Wilson
of L.A. Weekly (8/0)
Doesn't lead to much beyond weepy melodrama.
By
Jeannette Catsoulis
of Las Vegas Mercury (8/0)
It’s a sad day indeed when a movie’s most memorable performance belongs to Scooby Doo’s Matthew L...
Reviews of Wicker Park
By
Jon Niccum
of Lawrence Journal-World (8/0)
Ambitious script, slick director, strong supporting cast ... wrong lead actors.
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (8/0)
Harnett and Kruger move through the story like sleepwalkers who hope they won't wake up until the...
By
Michael Elliott
of Movie Parables (8/0)
Sometimes, a film's worst enemies can be those assigned to promote it.
By
Megan Lehmann
of New York Post (8/0)
...one of the silliest, most sieve-like screenplays of the year.
By
M.E. Russell
of Oregonian (8/0)
One too many scenes with Hartnett's genuinely unpleasant doofus drain away any investment in a fi...
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (8/0)
Falls apart because of the trivial narrative.
Reviews of Wicker Park
By
Jeanne Aufmuth
of Palo Alto Weekly (8/0)
Wooden performances, bad musical choices and one too many twists kill the good times.
By
Cynthia Fuchs
of PopMatters (8/0)
This process raises an array of questions, some relevant to the central plot and some just irrita...
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Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (8/0)
It's no coincidence that Wicker Park doesn't work.
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Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (8/0)
Wicker Park's nifty jigsaw puzzle of a story is done in by unfortunate casting choices.
By
Larry Ratliff
of San Antonio Express-News (8/0)
Wicker Park feels like an import stripping film sprockets as it struggles to fit the American mol...
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (8/0)
Like a stream of vapor trails trying to be a cloud, a floating 'thriller' of posed moods and inan...
Reviews of Wicker Park
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
...Hartnett is appealing and mostly very believable.
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Moira MacDonald
of Seattle Times (8/0)
Features a story so convoluted, audience members should be given a bag of breadcrumbs upon entry,...
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (8/0)
A slick movie with a nice-looking cast and a script that strips away everything that made the ori...
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (8/0)
This poorly acted romantic thriller is an abysmal mess.
By
Dave Kehr
of New York Times (3/6) Login Required (Login Required)
...without much real urgency to drive its extremely contrived plot.
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Lawrence Toppman
of Charlotte Observer (7/1) Not Reachable
Depends on coincidences so remote and behavior so improbable that they couldn't take place once i...
Movie Distributors Production Companies
IMA Films
Lakeshore Entertainment Movie Studios
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)
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