A pleasant enough valentine to Rendell's The Tree of Hands, if a story that deals with child abuse and sexual obsession could be described in those terms.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2002

Understated, elegant meditation on motherhood, obligation and coincidence, all wrapped up in the form of an urban thriller.

| Original Score: B | Dec 13, 2002

The story pulls us in almost immediately -- and the style and cast keep us hooked.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2002

Miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise, expertly plucking tension from quiet.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 29, 2002

A provocative movie about loss, anger, greed, jealousy, sickness and love.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2002

Cold, pretentious, thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy.

| Nov 8, 2002

If this movie leaves you cool, it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative.

| Nov 8, 2002

At its best when the guarded, resentful Betty and the manipulative yet needy Margot are front and center.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2002

A suspense thriller with a sense of pleasurable unease, the film also serves up a juicy slice of human nature.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 3, 2002

A nifty, entwined, ultimately gripping adaptation of British crime writer Ruth Rendell's novel The Tree of Hands.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 27, 2002

It's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2002

It's pithy without being saccharine; it's funny without ever not taking itself seriously; it's full of beautiful characters and great performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2002

Ms. Khiberlain, Ms. Garcia and Ms. Seigner brilliantly play the three mothers like a dissonant string trio on a single theme: the varied agonies of motherhood.

| Sep 18, 2002

Works as a decent urban thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 13, 2002

A stylish thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 13, 2002

Don't let the creepy dread fool you -- this quiet French thriller gets to the heart of motherhood, and then pays off with comfort and calm.

| Sep 12, 2002

At heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2002

Miller makes the film's sometimes mechanical and giddy narrative into something grander -- a meditation on maternity as a form of inspired madness.

| Sep 10, 2002

Miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acts of affection.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2002