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Nobody into lush melodramas dripping in sex should miss this pulsating Italian import.
91
Told in a tricky flashback mode that's vivid even with a few too many temporal kinks, Don't Move is the sort of thing that Claude Chabrol was once praised for making with more pretension and a lot less less juice.
90
Movies as strong and provocative as this one are a special pleasure.
80
In his second outing as a director, top thesp Sergio Castellitto (also playing the surgeon) takes the viewer on an emotion-filled ride and brings a violently masculine perspective to the story. However, it is Penelope Cruz who gives the film's knockout performance.
80
has a rich, lyrical sweep and floats between past and present, reality and imagination, with ease. It is a richly satisfying experience.
75
The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.
70
A compelling if not altogether convincing tale of mad love and divine redemption, adapted from the prize-winning novel by Castellitto's wife, Margaret Mazzantini.
63
A paranoid male fantasy about cheating, with surface similarities to Hollywood movies like ''Fatal Attraction" and ''Unfaithful." This one's Italian, though, and its attitude toward adultery is more European.
63
Don't Move comes to seem as static as its title -- we just don't learn enough to compensate for feeling so little.
63
Yes, the movie asks hard questions, but it would be better - or at least more honest - if it weren't so insistent that everyone arrive at the same answer.
