Doesn't hold up as well as you'd expect, and the strong performances from Leigh and Fonda can't overcome a weak screenplay.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Intense, sexual, violent tale of worst roommate ever.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2020

Ultimately goes easy on the psychological character studies and heavy on the slasher-film stylistics.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2018

Single White Female is a B-movie, yet it's a beautifully-made one that puts an emphasis on tone.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2018

I mean, if you're going to make the kind of movie where someone gets killed by being stabbed in the eye with a stiletto, just make the kind of movie where someone gets killed by being stabbed in the eye with a stiletto already.

| Nov 27, 2018

A solid psychological thriller, despite its warts and clumsy climax...

| Nov 19, 2018

...a thoroughly erratic early-'90s thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2018

What can the point of this possibly be when even the thrill of being afraid is denied us?

| Jul 25, 2018

Except for Hedra Carlson, the painfully awkward young woman played by Leigh, the director finds himself with a far less fully developed gallery of characters.

| Jun 6, 2018

The formula betrays the fine work of Leigh and Fonda, whose characters are much too interesting to find themselves stranded in a tony but ultimately tired slasher movie.

| Feb 9, 2018

Turns out both of these women are mentally damaged, adding a nice little purple-nurple to the script, giving the actresses something with a little more bite to play with.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 16, 2012

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

A waste of the talented Jennifer Jason Leigh and director Schroder

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2008

What Schroeder lacks in character development, he more than makes up for in mood and atmosphere, honing the creepy grandeur of the ominous, shadowy Manhattan apartment building with all the pinpoint perfection.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2008

The climax is a long time coming, and you can't help feeling that the adaptation would work better as a play.

| Apr 14, 2008

There's something dehumanizing about 90s horror thrillers that all but defeats the film's impulses toward seriousness; no matter how much the filmmakers work to make the characters real, the genre contrives to turn them into functions and props.

| Apr 14, 2008

A stylishly shot thriller with several hair-raising moments. Considering that it's directed by Barbet Schroeder and stars Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, it's also a major disappointment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2008

Despite excellent lead performances and numerous memorable scenes, this still feels like two different movies in one.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2008

Great suspense thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2007

Borrowing heavily from Bergman's masterpiece Persona, this shallow psychological thriller has a good beginning but poor ending.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 7, 2007