...rings with a perfectly hollow pitch that's a digital video punch to the solar plexus.

| Original Score: B | Jul 20, 2009

I don't go to the movies to be intentionally bored, and it's hard to develop any kind sympathy for characters who aren't even emotionally involved with themselves, never mind each other.

| Nov 19, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Utilizando o sexo como ponte para estudar seus personagens, o diretor Wayne Wang cria um filme interessante, mas no totalmente satisfatrio.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2003

What follows in Wang Wang's (Chinese Box, Smoke, Chan is Missing) new film The Center of the World is the dark side of Pretty Woman only without the Cinderella-like pretensions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2003

Retains the dreaded essence of voyeurism dressed as art.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2003

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2002

The dramatic push and pull of the budding relationship is not terribly original in and of itself -but in its ambiguities the movie soars.

| May 30, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Peter Sarsgaard and Molly Parker bare just about everything, without really bringing the characters to life.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2002

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 20, 2002

Molly Parker is a terrific actress, who tries to make something out of nothing.

| Original Score: C | Jan 11, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 80/100 | Dec 22, 2001

Wayne Wang's "The Center of the World" plays like a Mike Figgis film (and that's not always a good thing).

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2001

A sexually frank tale of urban isolation and emotional need out of the dotcom revolution.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2001

THE CENTER OF THE WORLD is a lot like its subject, strippers; it looks great, but leaves you oddly unfulfilled.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 12, 2001