In the Cut

Pros: Stylish use of the colours red, orange and occansional splashes of yellow.
Cons: Cheesy, cheap, shoddy rip off of television cop dramas.

I'm a big fan of a stylish, interesting thriller. I don't care if it's in book or film form, as long as it can keep me entertained and interested throughout the length of it, I'm satisfied. Of course, there's that pesky matter of having believable ...

Pros: Meg Ryan proves that she can act and it isn't all sugar and spice...
Cons: Too many to fit into fifteen words...

Aside from my first thoughts of, “what the hell,” or “wait, who’s doing what?” and the more popular “this isn’t even a vampire film, why on earth am putting myself through this,” I have nothing even remotely positive to say about this film. Yes, in ...

Pros: Jane Campion, Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo give good performances, interesting subtext, Dion Beebe photography
Cons: Logical inconsistencies, doesn't really work as a thriller

Cut to pieces by most reviewers, the adult-oriented In the Cut isn't as bad as the majority would have you believe. It may be that Meg Ryan, baring all, gives her best performance here. And co-star Mark Ruffalo ("Collateral") is very good ...

Pros: Ryan, Ruffalo, Leigh
Cons: messy, unsatisfying

In the Cut made its way into and out of theatres rather quickly, what little attention it managed to garner owing mostly to Meg Ryan's bravura turn away from America's rom-com sweetheart and decidedly towards full-frontal nudity. Give that a good ...

Pros: Tight control of imagery, acting, general atmosphere
Cons: The sexual nature may be too much for some

In the Cut is among the most difficult films to explore. This will become clear in a moment. Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo) meets Frannie (Meg Ryan), and English teacher, when he comes to her apartment to ask whether she heard or saw anything ...

Pros: Includes previews for movies that might not suck so irredeemably.
Cons: Yeah. It sucks irredeemably.

[MEG RYAN addresses cast and crew, on the scene of filming In The Cut] RYAN: Alright people, listen up. I want everyone to know exactly what this film is and is not. We are defining this as "pure award-show fodder" -- this film w ...

Pros: Interesting look, some interesting performances and interesting structure and theme
Cons: The movie itself is less interesting than infuriating

The past 15 years have seen an interesting evolution for Jane Campion, who has gone from being a director of intelligent, challenging good films (Sweetie, An Angel at My Table) to being a director of intelligent, challenging really bad films ...

Pros: Even the very nude Meg Ryan was boring. Kevin Bacon made me laugh.
Cons: Storyline, script, cinematography, predictable ..etc

You know, up until lately I have been pretty lucky that the movies I was watching were all pretty good. All you have to do is check out my recent reviews over the last three or four months or so and check out the ratings I gave. So it's just recently ...

Pros: Umm…nudity…
Cons: Plot, plot, plot; lack of thrills and chills.

Meg Ryan apparently had an itch that needed scratching, a yearning to dump the sweet American girl-next-door image carefully cultivated in movies like When Harry Met Sally (1989), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and ...

Pros: Ruffalo, Ryan ACTING! AND Nekkid!!! Great location work.
Cons: An exercise in 70s style, era filmaking.

IN THE CUT. Meg Ryan is naked… very, very naked. The film is pretty shocking and frank in terms of its explicitness. There’s even a shot of a woman (no not Meg) giving head that would fit into an X rated film. Actually not just one quick ...

Pros: Can't think of one!
Cons: Meg Ryan naked. Boring plot. Needlessly gruesome scenes. Sex without erotic tension.

In this rather slow and predictable movie, which was billed as an "erotic thriller" but does not live up to such claim, Meg Ryan stars as Frannie, a rather geeky and spectacled schoolteacher who gets involved in a steamy relationship with a New York ...

Pros: hmmm...I guess you could say it was unpredictable
Cons: choppy, pointless, lacked a plot, excessively vulgar and sexual, Meg Ryan, boring, endless

I read a few reviews about this movie before my boyfriend and I watched it so I was afraid it was going to be bad. But then I thought, how often have I seen Meg Ryan in a movie that I considered to be bad? Never. Not to my recollection anyways. I loved ...

Pros: a psychological story of depth and intensity told with visual splendor
Cons: For some, the story might be murky and confused by excessive artiness

I first saw 'In The Cut' in a theater. Startled, I resolved to see it again, to verify if I really had seen what I thought I'd seen. But it disappeared from theaters before I could do so. I recently saw the DVD, and can say that on the small screen it is ...

Pros: Performances by Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo; Very stylized
Cons: Whodunit aspect is grossly negligent; Conclusion blows

Ever since scoring an Oscar for "The Piano," writer-director Jane Campion has continuously displayed a radar for erotic provocation, with mixed results. Like Catherine Breillat, Campion pushes the envelop of sexual expression in unique ways to pinpoint th ...

Pros: Will save you money in the long run...
Cons: ...by making you never want to spend $10 on a movie again

Beware: Spoiler ahead. Not spoilers, plural. So little happens in the epic two hours, that I can offer only one singular spoiler. Aaah, yes. Ye olde whodunit with an arty texture. But will someone tell Jane Campion that moving the camera around, filmi ...