| Artisan Entertainment | Release Date: November 12, 1999 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
A rare example of a literary film that preserves the best of its source while creatively filling up on it.
Compulsion, self-deception and the slippery nature of evil are explored with fidelity and supreme control .
In this, Alfred Hitchcock's centenary year, Felicia's Journey so startlingly channels the obsessions of the late director that it might be the greatest Hitchcock movie the master of suspense never made.
In this film, shadowy seams of brutality, loss and grief are traced beneath bright layers of tree boughs, children's laughter and high, empty windows.
All of Egoyan's movies have revolved around characters with damaged, fragile psyches, but rarely have they been illustrated as deftly -- and as gracefully -- as in Felicia's Journey.
A chilly oddball that's easier to admire than love.
The success of Felicia's Journey lies in the work of the steady and here understated Hoskins, who gives one of his best performances, and young Cassidy, who displays a weary maturity even through her deer-in-the-headlights character.
But given the potentially gripping subject matter, the film is fatally underedited: Every scene feels too long.
It's yet another serial killer movie, a plot element that by this point in time, far from being disturbing or fascinating, is just plain dull.
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