The dark decandence on display is second to none.

| Apr 18, 2025

If it wasn’t clear by now, The Talented Mr. Ripley is the rare film of its era in which the actors take center stage, not the director.

| Nov 6, 2024

Matt Damon’s Tom Ripley is a 20th century Iago: he lies for advancement, he lies to protect himself, and he lies because it does not occur to him to simply tell the truth.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 3, 2024

A sumptuous thriller directed to near perfection by the late Anthony Minghella.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2024

This mostly faithful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's classic has one of the most attractive Hollywood casts. The queer undertones are prominent and Damon shines as the closeted con artist who lusts for both Jude Law's Dickie *and* his life

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2024

If we want to fix Hollywood, make 100 more movies like The Talented Mr. Ripley and just make that the extent of what people can choose from.

| May 27, 2023

The film feels warm but unsettled, as if hinting at approaching storms; the score, too, flits from lugubrious to manic.

| Apr 3, 2023

Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, Anthony Minghella's adaptation is as haunting as it is entertaining. While watching this mysterious work, you may feel as if you are encountering the ghosts of Hitchcock and Dostoevsky -- and justifiably so.

| Dec 16, 2022

The menace builds as Tom’s deceptions pile up and the locations — Rome, Venice, cliffside Positano — are as gorgeous as the cast.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 22, 2022

Ripley gets a vulnerable, compassionate interpretation from Minghella behind the camera and Matt Damon, in his most intricate and affecting performance, in the title role.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 2, 2022

A decidedly dark and demented sort of polished gem, all spectacular surfaces masking a fundamentally rotten core.

| Feb 2, 2021

It's all very circuitous and occasionally crafty, but primarily it just goes on for too long.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 24, 2020

Definitely the best part Matt Damon's ever had and his best performance. It's also my favorite.

| Original Score: A | May 1, 2020

Lush, star-studded movies like The Talented Mr. Ripley teach us to yearn: for Europe, for charisma, for nice furniture and idler times. The Talented Mr. Ripley also teaches us how poisonous that longing can be.

| Mar 26, 2019

The sumptuous production, eclectic score, grand performances and engrossing moments of suspense make Ripley one the year's finer offerings.

| Feb 21, 2019

A fascinating (and often baffling) thriller about assumed identity and naked greed, based on the classic book by Patricia Highsmith.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2018

Minghella puts us inside Ripley's head, inviting us to share his envy and giddy excitement even as we recognize his warped need to be someone he's not.

| Feb 16, 2018

A "10 Best" achievement, thanks to writer-director Anthony Minghella's acute interpretation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, a shooting style that wallows in decadence and danger, and a choice cast completely in sync with the stringent demands of the story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 21, 2013

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" slithers along with great elegance and purpose for most of Ripley's reign, stumbling only at the end when Minghella trips on the limitations imposed by his own updated psychoanalysis.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

Full of murder and deceit; too violent for kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011