Campion’s In the Cut is a criminally neglected masterpiece...

| Dec 27, 2022

In the Cut is masterful in its suggestion of the ambient, omnipresent air of sexual threat that exists in traditional heterosexual dynamics.

| Feb 18, 2021

Meg Ryan is desperately, unpersuasively naked in Jane Campion's ludicrous erotic thriller...

| Mar 16, 2020

As in Portrait of a Lady, Campion demonstrates great faith in the fantasy sequence as a guide to the psyche, but this time the device seems simplistic .

| Apr 2, 2019

The thriller elements are half-baked and predictable. The violence is never scary nor repellent.

| Apr 2, 2019

I still consider this the best (which also means the sexiest) Campion feature since The Piano, featuring Meg Ryan's finest performance to date and an impressive one by Mark Ruffalo.

| Apr 2, 2019

Campion excels in the erotic... She is, however, clearly useless at thrillers, and the final stages of this film fall just short of risible.

| Apr 1, 2019

Beneath its dense texture and rich mood, Jane Campion's romantic thriller is about nothing and goes nowhere.

| Apr 1, 2019

Though the oppressive artiness makes the early scenes fairly ridiculous, the director's odd methods add rare tension to the climax, as it becomes evident that the finale won't be so predictable in Campion's hands.

| Mar 31, 2019

Ryan gives a career redefining performance.

| Jan 10, 2018

Weak plot with grisly middle; should've been NC-17.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Jane Campion enters the world of suspense thrillers, as well as the landscape of American filmmaking, with mixed results.

| Jul 22, 2008

Technically brilliant, and Ryan is utterly compelling. But ultimately it's too voyeuristic and cold to recommend without reservations.

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

Obsession is central to this erotic thriller. But there's also an obsessive quality to the filmmaker's take on her material, which was adapted from a novel by Susanna Moore, as if the genre excluded all that is spontaneous, frivolous or light.

| Dec 6, 2005

Like a long-lost relic from an earlier period best forgotten.

| Original Score: D | May 4, 2005

[Campion] may have envisioned making Last Tango in the East Village, but the results are closer to a new installment of Red Shoe Diaries.

| Aug 7, 2004

As if giving a lecture on film noir, Campion insists, with unworldly pedantry, on just how dangerous and erotic every detail is supposed to be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2004

A minutely etched study in mood and female psychology.

Full Review | Dec 2, 2003

I found the movie reasonably absorbing from moment to moment.

| Nov 6, 2003

[T]he character that Meg Ryan is playing so well here is so compelling. I think it's a wonderful performance that the movie is worth seeing for that.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2003