Without Suzanne Stone, there would be no Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. And now, with social media, we can curate and broadcast our own existence – imagined or otherwise.

| Aug 20, 2024

first and foremost an exercise in bold style, with Van Sant throwing out the traditional playbook and thereby turning what might have otherwise been a Lifetime-esque potboiler into a thrilling, darkly humorous cinematic experiment

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 21, 2024

Boasts an impressive cast that includes three future Oscar winners and a tale of unbridled ambition that could've made for a riveting experience, but sadly it's all undone by a rather inexplicable, puzzling structure that reveals far too much too early.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2024

In the way it cavorts with teen melodrama, black comedy, and docu-realism to reflect Suzanne’s contradictory masks, To Die For is a comic precursor to Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.

| Mar 22, 2024

The more I revisit the film, though, it’s Joaquin Phoenix and Alison Folland as James and Lydia, the teens most closely involved with Suzanne, who really give it its exceptional shape.

| Mar 20, 2024

The film, adapted by Buck Henry from Joyce Maynard’s novel, is smartly structured, but Van Sant’s touch is uncertain: the story’s satirical bite begins to loosen as his camera lingers more and more on the disaffected teen-agers.

| Jun 12, 2023

Furiously paced and sharply funny, To Die For doesn't try for subtlety; its laughs are delivered with self-consciously heavy hands.

| Dec 27, 2022

"To Die For" has a crisp professional snap, as if the producer had splashed cold water on Van Sant between takes.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2022

A hilarious satiric treat.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 28, 2022

Aside from outstanding performances, the movie is smartly paced and well designed. Most of all, it delivers fascinating characters and provocative ideas with skill and grace.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 19, 2021

To Die For is a slickly savage look at contemporary life and the power of the media manipulators all around us.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2019

In this wickedly funny look at 온라인카지노추천-spawned celebrity-obsession, Nicole Kidman gives a breakthrough performance as a psychopathic Jane Pauley wannabe.

| Oct 26, 2018

A smart black comedy that skewers America's fatal fascination with television and celebrity, it employs an unerring nasty touch to parody our omnipresent culture of fame. And it uses a rather unlikely combination of talents to do the job.

| Oct 26, 2018

A grotesque black comedy.

| Original Score: B | Apr 4, 2008

As Jimmy, the teen sap who falls hard for Suzanne, Joaquin Phoenix is dead-eyed yet touchingly vulnerable -- a mush-mouthed angel.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 12, 2008

Like Roseanne, Gus Van Sant refuses to compromise his trademark smarty-pants assault on storybook America.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2008

If, like me, you find things to admire in all of Gus Van Sant's early films, you may be especially gratified by what he's done with a satirical anti-온라인카지노추천 script by Buck Henry.

| Feb 12, 2008

A smart and wicked delight

| Feb 12, 2008

It's highly recommended.

| Feb 12, 2008

A mean-spirited satire, told in mock-tabloid style, this film features the best performance of Nicole Kidman to date (better than The Hours for which she won an Oscar), as an amoral small-town girl obsessed with becoming a 온라인카지노추천 star.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 9, 2007