This isn't dumb, but it plays out as academically as it sounds, without a shred of true terror and with only the most muted sexual charge. Solemn, portentous and curiously dull, there is simply no chemical charge between Roberts and Malkovich.

| Feb 23, 2018

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

The film is too mannered, too stuffy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Sluggish and interminable, Mary Reilly makes good on little of its potential to be disturbing and none of its chance to be emotionally involving.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 14, 2001

It's a slight, moribund bugaboo, a bump in the night, and then nothing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Mary Reilly works as Gothic melodrama because it understands the genre so well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Unfortunately, your response to the bizarre story of terror and lust that dare not speak their name is pretty well limited to Roberts' response -- which is, in turn, limited by her technique.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The story lacks purpose.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Director Frears seems more interested in the atmosphere than the narrative.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A perversely courageous disaster that audiences will simply hate.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: C- | Feb 23, 1996