Wenders uses densely detailed imagery, his pacing is weighted, and there are no insights that relate to the characters -- the film drags along on secondhand alienation.

| Sep 18, 2023

... only a filmmaker as humane as [director Wim Wenders] could recognize there's no way out of the story's moral corruption.

| Feb 15, 2018

An absorbing but rarefied, introspective variation on traditional thrilleer motifs, it's probably not the synthetis between the personal and traditional that Wenders needs but it's a fascinating compulsively watchable experiment.

| May 5, 2017

By refusing to explain Ripley, this gets closer to Highsmith's character than any other film version.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2007

Superb adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, with Hopper as her amiably cynical hero.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2006

There's something cheerfully perverse about filming a thriller and then tossing out the parts that would help it make sense, but Wim Wenders has a certain success with the method.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Gripping 1977 American thriller from Wim Wenders that turns back on itself with deadly European irony.

| Jan 1, 2000