SummaryIn the underbelly of lower Manhattan, Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a reserved English professor, becomes obsessed after seeing more than she should of an impassioned couple. After the young woman turns up dead, Frannie is questioned by a homicide detective (Mark Ruffalo) who draws her into a liberating but disturbing erotic encounter. As the body co... Read More
Directed By:Jane Campion
Written By:Jane Campion, Susanna Moore, Stavros Kazantzidis
In the Cut
Metascore
Mixed or Average
47
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
47
26% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
50% Mixed
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24% Negative
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100
If In the Cut falls short of the masterpiece Campion intended, it's unquestionably the most ambitious and important film to come along in months.
70
The best (which also means the sexiest) Campion feature since "The Piano," featuring Meg Ryan's best performance to date and an impressive one by Mark Ruffalo.
60
A disjointed, sometimes fascinating mélange of moods, associations and effects.
50
A disappointing erotic thriller from director Jane Campion that amounts to an implausible update on "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
40
Campion and company may like to think they've made something provocative, moody and new but it's really just "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" with extra nuts.
37
Campion has made something that's almost unbearably pretentious.
0
Ryan radiates neither desire nor terror. She's freeze-dried in a world of lifelessly abstract feminine fear, and so is the movie.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
57% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
33% Mixed
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2 Ratings
Jan 30, 2022
5
From the director who is likely to bag the Oscar for best director this year, In The Cut is a disappointing thriller with a feminist angle that is constantly weakened by the lack of a more involving pace and especially by not having a better lead. In The Cut is a dark and penetrating film, certainly more erotic than thrilling, but Meg Ryan was a poor casting choice.
She's unable to sell the character. Her performance doesn't feel natural, but forced. The film is not mediocre, but shallow. A lot of the themes it handles are quite good, but Jane Campion fails to explore them properly.
They are scattered points in the narrative without a more practical coherence. To see her best thrillers, which I think she did with what she learned in this film, better watch the two seasons of Top of The Lake.
Aug 21, 2021
5
In The Cut is one of those movie that there is a very good thing in it, then slowly getting really bad and it just make me don't care anymore.
Production Company:
- Screen Gems
- Pathé
- Fatts
- Pathe Productions
- Red Turtle
Release Date:Oct 22, 2003
Duration:1 h 59 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Everything you know about desire is dead wrong.
Awards
Australian Cinematographers Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
