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

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

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

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

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

Full Review | Apr 14, 2008

If his two leads are adequate to the slick mechanisms of a formulaic thriller, neither they nor Don Roos' script (based on the novel by John Lutz) offer any original insights into insatiable emotional dependence.

| Feb 9, 2006

The film is smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated. It has far more sound psychological underpinnings than other movies of its type.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Schroeder goes through the motions -- the movie is elegantly made -- but this synthetic Hollywood package panders shamelessly to the baser instincts.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

You watch this thing coolly intrigued and sometimes amused, rather than terrified and taken in -- even when the stabbing raises its bloody, predictable hand.

| Jan 1, 2000

This is a story which, in other hands, could have simply been an all-female slasher movie, but Barbet Schroeder, who produced and directed it, has a mordant humor that pushes the material over the top. It is a slasher movie, and a little more.

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

It's a familiar generic piece that's graced with stylish amounts of intelligence, sly humor and visual wit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The tension between its content and its trashy form is precisely the key to its vitality. If it were any less cheap, it wouldn't have the same edgy, gut-twisting jolt.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Aug 14, 1992