In the Cut 2003

Critics score:
34 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: More of a curiosity than a full-fledged movie. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: For all its clammy atmosphere and sinful airs, In the Cut is a cold, airless, frustratingly detached experience. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [T]he character that Meg Ryan is playing so well here is so compelling. I think it's a wonderful performance that the movie is worth seeing for that. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: May be the most maddening and imperfect great movie of the year. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's not for everyone, but I couldn't take my eyes away. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Campion impudently sabotages her star's history, and Ryan, joining the plot, makes Frannie come alive, looking as provocatively out of place as Diane Keaton did playing the nymphomaniac teacher in the sexual hell of 1977's Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: A disjointed, sometimes fascinating melange of moods, associations and effects. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: In a sense, it's a Rorschach test of what it's like to be single, 40ish, female and living alone in New York City. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's been a while since a major filmmaker has made a movie this heavy with symbolism, this portentous, and this bad. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Despite its weaknesses, this is an entrancing movie. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Stunning and unrelenting. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Stripped of Moore's eager, exploratory prose, In the Cut has, in essence, become a dreadfully inert late-night cable movie, complete with cheesy coincidences and dismembered limbs. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: In the Cut is several cuts below. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Suffers from a fatal emotional and erotic imbalance. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A knotty mess, but not quite dismissable either. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A smart match of art and artist. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: I hate this movie. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: It is nasty, gruesome, pointlessly kinky and gratuitously awful. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I found the movie reasonably absorbing from moment to moment. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A puzzling affair of murky motivations and leaps of logic that no amount of Meg Ryan skin and no number of faked orgasms can hide. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If your reason for seeing In the Cut is to watch America's sweetheart stripped bare, you'll get what you're looking for. On the other hand, if you're looking for a good movie, this one will disappoint. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: All of this is well done, and yet the movie is kind of a shambles. The key supporting characters are awkwardly used, as if the movie thinks it ought to have them but doesn't know why. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: In the Cut isn't just a movie about decapitation; it's a decapitated movie. It has no idea where its head is at. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Unquestionably the most ambitious and important film to come along in months. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A movie that frustrates as much as it entertains because it promises more than it can deliver. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A muddle of thriller and art-house phantasmagoria. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: When In The Cut is good, it is very good. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: [A] story-hungry murder mystery that flubs its whodunit fundamentals. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: It's a throwback to the New York policiers of the Koch era, yet wacky enough to suggest a procedural in the Land of Oz. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: More of an intriguing project than a satisfying experience. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Belabored and muddled movie, whose dreamy visual style and daring sexual material can't elide glaring inconsistencies in tone, plot and logic. Read more