Rick
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment | Release Date: September 24, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
Haunting and chilling, yet biting black tragi-comedy. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
This impressive - and utterly depressing - feature debut is another in the current rush of testaments to the power of the new corporation to suck the goodness from its employees and all who have the misfortune to enter its orbit. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A devilish updating of Verdi's "Rigoletto." Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
If you require that you "like" a movie, then Rick is not for you, because there is nothing likable about it. It's rotten to the core and right down to the end. But if you find that such extremes can be fascinating, then the movie may cheer you, not because it is happy, but because it goes for broke. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A deliciously bitter tale of lust and betrayal. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJorge Morales
Rick (Bill Pullman) is an embittered cad who fails to earn the audience's sympathy, so the film falls short of its source's tragic dimensions. That aside, Daniel Handler's script and Curtiss Clayton's direction hit all the right notes, especially in the final act. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The belated sentimentality of the movie is as thudding as its fire-and-brimstone moralism; they're really two sides of the same counterfeit coin. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Feels like it was written by an oddball artist-temp type with an ax to grind - which, as it happens, it was. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Everything about this curio is claustrophobic. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
It’s a frequently riveting gambit, and the actors give it their all. However, the mood and the stylized camerawork make the proceedings too arch to completely succeed. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleJoshua Kosman
Seems to want to be a fierce satire of corporate culture. But by hewing so faithfully to their source, the creators don't let the material pursue its own direction, and the result feels dramatically arbitrary. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
It's hard for Rick to maintain this jangled tone, which aims to be simultaneously heartbreaking and broadly satirical. The latter tack pushes Rick too far, and too soon. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A noxious little tale of Wall Street types whose amorality knows no limit, Rick takes smarmy knowingness to ludicrous extremes. Read full review
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