SummaryIntricately moving back and forth in time and revealing the story from each character's perspective, Wicker Park is an intense psychological drama about a man (Hartnett) caught in an obsessive search for a woman he fell deeply in love with -- a woman who then vanished without a trace. (MGM)
Directed By:Paul McGuigan
Written By:Gilles Mimouni, Brandon Boyce
Wicker Park
Metascore
Mixed or Average
40
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
40
21% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
35% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
44% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
83
It would be tempting to say that fractured time sequences in movies have become a cliché, except that Wicker Park makes your brain spin in surprising and pleasurable ways.
63
Movies that are entertainingly nuts don't come around very often, and when they do they need to be given their due.
50
All of this was more enjoyable when Bellucci, Cassel and Bohringer were the stars. Hartnett is overly methodical here as Matthew, and Kruger, as in "Troy," is beautiful but lacking in dramatic intensity.
40
The French original was a clever Hitchcock homage with a murder at its center. For reasons unknown, the murder plot has been dropped from the remake (though a few confusing traces of it remain), which leaves Wicker Park without much real urgency to drive its extremely contrived plot.
30
If Alfred Hitchcock were retarded, lobotomized, and freshly dug up, he might possibly c--- out a movie like this one.
25
Emotionally stultifying and brain-dead.
10
The characters’ actions here are goofy, immature, unsettling and at times downright silly.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
71% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
24% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Aug 24, 2022
7
It's a well acted movie with a great story told in a non-linear fashion. The "hit and miss" between the two main characters trying to find each other is like mental gymnastics for the viewer. It becomes almost stressful! All that frustration for the characters and the viewer could have been solved if either party simply had a mobile phone (which they did, but only at inconvenient times)
Nov 15, 2011
6
An interesting romance that strives for the quote "what's meant to be will always find its way." It seemed like Wicker Park tried to attract both audiences of the Romance genre: the innocent; for the happy, mushy ending with rated-PG dialogue; and the naughty; by the misleading cover.
