Eye of the Beholder 1999

Tom Long, Detroit News: Eye of the Beholder suffers from blurry vision at best. Don't let your eyes behold it. Read more

Jay Webb, Dallas Morning News: The film's plot degenerates into a psychological mess. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Impenetrable mess of a movie. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: As misogynistic as anything I've seen in ages, it's tricked up with enough fancy cinematography (by Guy Dufaux) to guarantee it sub-Hitchcockian credentials of the sort that some reviewers eagerly hand out to Brian De Palma. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The more complex it tries to be, the less compelling it becomes. Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: Remove the directorial flash and filigree, and its narrative would be easier to track. Read more

Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly: Eye of the Beholder more or less throws Vertigo, The Conversation, Body Double, and -- so help me -- Duel in the Sun into a blender and hits puree. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It's late January, winter is entrenched, and in the lull between the bounty of Christmas and the renewal of spring, the big screen can sometimes seem barren -- a movable famine. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The tone is stillborn and static when it should be ominous and engrossing. The characters fail to connect with the audience. This is a cold, distant, and off-putting motion picture that generates little in the way of tension or suspense. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Eye of the Beholder attempts to convey emotional dislocation and passion at the same time. All we get is distance. Read more

Time Out: The result is compellingly bonkers. Read more

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Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Its neo-noir, psych-thriller signifiers don't just provide goofy flash via flashback but service a grief-concerned narrative in which time and space collapse into a surrealist black hole. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: This mangled project is neither great art nor grand entertainment but, because it floors the pedal for both, it has a certain resplendent awfulness. Read more