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Cruel Intentions
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual dialogue and sexual situations involving teens, language and drug use
Starring
Ryan Phillippe,
Sarah Michelle Gellar,
Reese Witherspoon,
Selma Blair,
Louise Fletcher,
Joshua Jackson,
Swoosie Kurtz,
and
Christine Baranski
Set in modern-day Manhattan, this is an adaptation of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," the classic and scandalous Pierre Laclos novel of sexual manipulation and romantic war games first published in 1782. (Columbia TriStar)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Roger Kumble
Choderlos de Laclos (novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Roger Kumble
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 11, 2001
Video: April 25, 2000
Theatrical: March 5, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A witty, raunchy comedy, which proves that a well-written piece of business – oozing with sex, wit and nasty intrigue – works for any generation.
80
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
Don't be fooled by the WB appeal; if you've ever been in high school, Cruel Intentions has the wiles to seduce.
80
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
The dirtiest-minded American movie in recent memory -- and an honestly corrupt entertaining picture is never anything to sneeze at.
80
Variety
Emanuel Levy
Nasty, profane and wickedly entertaining for the most part.
80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The original was about social manipulation as blood sport. Amazing how easily it transports, themes intact, to our blighted decade, and to our children.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It crash-lands with an ending of soppy moralizing, but until the end, it's smart and merciless in the tradition of the original story.
70
Film.com
John Hartl
The darkly comic tone is often just right, and the casting occasionally pays off.
70
Newsweek
B.J. Sigesmund
You won't be able to resist the film's ribaldry and cynicism.
70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Neither the characters nor the events are exactly the same as those of the novel, but some of the same spirit comes across.
70
New Times (L.A.)
Andy Klein
As the story plows toward its finale, the cultural dislocation problems become worse, until by the end they almost defeat the whole film.
70
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
A "guilty pleasure" -- only it's the sort of film that would mock anyone who felt guilt in pleasure.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Never shocks or even offends by ascribing fully adult cruelties and erotic activities to obnoxious kids; such harshness wouldn't flatter a cast this moussed and magazine-layout-ready.
60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
It's tremendous fun, thanks largely to a smarter-than-average script and some fierce casting.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
It is maliciously entertaining, up to a point.
50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
You have the queasy sense that the whole thing is just an elaborate stunt, and in this case an exploitative one.
50
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
As Cruel Intentions progresses, you may come to realize that if a bomb suddenly blew up everyone on screen, you wouldn't particularly miss anyone.
50
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
In truth, the only reason this film was made was to allow viewers to ogle pretty young things behaving badly.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
It's fun, but the blatant, obvious kind that mistakes allusive cool for mature filmmaking and subtle ideasmanship.
40
Film Threat
Ron Wells
In the end, the whole shebang comes off like a bunch of snotty, rich white kids screwing each other and screwing each other over.
40
The New Yorker
David Denby
It's not boring (given the subject, how could it be?), but almost nothing in it works.
38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
No amount of youthful charisma can alter the fact that, in the light of "Dangerous Liaisons", Cruel Intentions is a feeble and dissatisfying shadow.
30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It works only sporadically, and more as a comic outing than as a vicious battle of sexual predation.
20
Film.com
Gemma Files
Mr Kumble: Keep your hands off the classics! You don't deserve to read them, let alone paraphrase them.
20
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's not the trite talk that sends Cruel Intentions into a tailspin, it's the lightweight casting.
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