Savage Grace
IFC Films | Release Date: May 30, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
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Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
12
Negative:
4
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Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
It's tough to think of another film in which sex between a mother and her son is not necessarily the worst thing that happens. Read full review
50
VarietyJay Weissberg
Scripter Howard A. Rodman's treatment of an enthralling book is more a series of vignettes rather than a fully connected work, and helmer Tom Kalin seems unable to decide how much Sirkian melodrama to introduce into the heady mix. Gone are the reasons to be fascinated with these people, merely replaced with maddeningly over-arch dialogue and struggles with characterization. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Has everything one could ask of a true-crime expose. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
The film includes graphic omnisexual and incestuous couplings and has an air of free-floating dread but, especially given its subject matter, it's oddly vacuous – it rarely takes hold emotionally even when its people hit bottom with a resounding thud. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Savage Grace comes up bland and seems to go nowhere in particular. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Savage Grace is a thoroughly disturbing story, told in a detached style rendering the overall experience an unsettling blend of lurid and vacuous. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Rarely has appalling, reckless behavior been so soporific as in Savage Grace. Read full review
40
Film ThreatJamie Tipps
To be sure, it's a very pretty, well acted production; however, that doesn't make up for the fact that I hated every minute of it. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Proust might have known what to do with the Baekelands, but Mr. Kalin and Mr. Rodman don't make much more of them than the mess they apparently already were. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
"Grace" may be based on a true story, but barely a moment in it feels real. Read full review
40
EmpireStaff (Not credited)
Savage Grace is simply hysterical: a film as harsh, brittle and unbalanced as its characters. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
You can almost smell the desperation in the twisted psychosexuality of Savage Grace. Read full review
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