Neo-noir & near enough a bore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2021

A pointless and trifling mystery fable.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 24, 2018

You're unlikely to see a scene as weird as the one where McGregor beats up Judd's blind fiance, as a way to warn him that she'll kill him. That seems counter-intuitive, but nothing in Eye of the Beholder reeks of anything near the notion of intuition.

| Aug 12, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2007

As misogynistic as anything I've seen in ages, it's tricked up with enough fancy cinematography (by Guy Dufaux) to guarantee it sub-Hitchcockian credentials of the sort that some reviewers eagerly hand out to Brian De Palma.

| Mar 6, 2007

The result is compellingly bonkers.

| Jan 26, 2006

Remove the directorial flash and filigree, and its narrative would be easier to track.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

It's not good when you check your watch every 20 minutes during a 107-minute movie. It's bad when you think, "Yeaahh, rrright" almost as often.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 25, 2004

During one scene, some characters take a break by watching a video of Roger Corman's great 1960 The Wasp Woman. I suggest you do the same.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 5, 2003

On the bright side, I only lost an hour and half of my life watching this piece of [expletive deleted], unlike those involved in the making of it, who lost months.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 19, 2003

As if to make up for the disjointed quality of the story, director Elliott has incorporated various themes into the film, such as the repetitive use of snow globes, angel statues, and astrology... Unfortunately, these things only pretty up a bad picture.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

McGregor's and Judd's attentive, focused performances never allow their characters to become lost in Elliott's fractured, virtual America.

| Dec 2, 2002

Unfortunately, Elliott's latest effort contained too many blanks for me to fill in.

| Aug 2, 2002

If you took five different jigsaw puzzles, threw the pieces together on a table top and spent two hours trying to make a cohesive picture, you might end up with something along the lines of this.

| Jun 23, 2002

Eye of the Holder makes you wonder how bad are the scripts that Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor turn down.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 20, 2002

It's late January, winter is entrenched, and in the lull between the bounty of Christmas and the renewal of spring, the big screen can sometimes seem barren -- a movable famine.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 5, 2002

The film maintains its story perfectly from the beginning, creating a gorgeous atmosphere and layering the story with hints of thriller, mystery, romance and psychological drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2001

A disappointing flick.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 30, 2001

Moving at the pace of blood through the veins, "Beholder" has the power to alter time, making an hour forty-five seem like three.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 16, 2001