Single White Female 1992

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The film is smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated. It has far more sound psychological underpinnings than other movies of its type. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: 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. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Despite excellent lead performances and numerous memorable scenes, this still feels like two different movies in one. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: 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. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: You watch this thing coolly intrigued and sometimes amused, rather than terrified and taken in -- even when the stabbing raises its bloody, predictable hand. Read more