Disclosure 1994

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: For those who would question Crichton's motives, Levinson and Attanasio haven't let men off the hook. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: This is the least personal movie [Levinson has] made in years, and the script is more a shortening of Crichton's story than a dramatization. Read more

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: Pure and simple trash masquerading as significance. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Its preoccupation with snazzy computer-generated special effects has left key plot points so unclear at least one baffled viewer had to retreat to the book to find out why some things happened and others did not. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: If the best parts of Disclosure are its sideshows, its biggest drawback is that infernal infatuation the filmmakers have with technology and power. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: This witty, wily battle between genders is not so much about sexual harassment as it is about power politics in the workplace, where water-cooler gossip is replaced by E-mail, and where memo warfare is waged by combatants in virtual-reality goggles. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: This time, it's the author who's the dinosaur. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: You know in advance what the politics will be: strong women in positions of power are just fine as long as they aren't sexually dominant and obey middle-class rules of propriety. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A glibly entertaining corporate thriller. Read more

Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker: The presence of Douglas, who has made a career of being pursued by beautiful, dangerous women, turns this sexual-harassment thriller into instant camp. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: As a thriller, this movie is effective and gripping, if occasionally contrived as a result of overplotting. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is an exercise in pure cynicism, with little respect for its subject -- or for its thriller plot, which I defy anyone to explain. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: As the poor shlub fighting several battles at once -- all of them against shrewder, meaner adversaries -- Douglas is a complex and sympathetic Everyman. Read more

Jack Kroll, Newsweek: In this world of Information Highway sophistication and virtual-reality marvels, the pivotal plot points are all rickety coincidences: an overheard conversation, a fortuitous phone call. Read more

Time Out: Hokey and classy in equal measure, this is better than it ought to be. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Levinson and Attanasio don't ignore the basics of the tale, but don't indulge them either, subjectively approaching Tom's character to maximize dramatic involvement and treating the most explosive aspects of the story more rationally than emotionally. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Smashingly entertaining. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: You should read what happens in the book. It would make a helluva movie. Read more