More outrageous, perverse, and trivial than plausible or nerve-wracking.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 9, 2020

As Graham attempts to uncover the truth about his past, the film grows increasingly convoluted, leading to a twist ending that will come as a surprise only to those who've never seen a Shannon Tweed movie.

| Aug 3, 2009

The screenplay (based on Nicci French's novel) is cringeworthy, and Kaige's inability to spot when English-speaking thesps are reciting rather than acting produces scenes that vary from lifeless to laughable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 3, 2009

Why, you might ask, is master director Chen Kaige wasting his time on such trashy material?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 3, 2009

What a disappointing waste of good talent!

| Oct 18, 2008

A turgid erotic thriller that plays like Zalman King-meets-vintage Brian De Palma without the latter's wit or style.

| May 21, 2008

A hilariously bad movie that has to be seen to be believed.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Inane and shopworn material with a truly cheesy final twist, this is made excruciating by direction that takes it all deadly seriously.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's pretty campy-silly, but it's surprisingly watchable for some reason, maybe because of the name-brand actors sleazing it in this Skinemax would-be classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2005

Though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations, the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2003

Spectacularly awful film that's actually funnier than many so-called comedies.

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

Turkeys don't come plumper than this.

| Jul 11, 2002

Fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 25, 2002

A risible drama, torpedoed by lifeless performances, a muddled screenplay and anonymous direction.

| Jun 25, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 13, 2002

What a great shame that such a talented director as Chen Kaige has chosen to make his English-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2002

With miscast leads, banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax, Killing Me Softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2002

Es triste tener que decirles que lo nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la Heather...

Full Review | May 12, 2002