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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83
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
If you might wish the film got deeper under the skin of the characters, you also feel grateful for the fact that you'll never get closer to them than watching it. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Money, madness, incest and murder! Just the recipe for a twisted mesmerizer of a movie, if it doesn't creep you out. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's still primarily a showcase and offbeat star vehicle for Moore. It's a bravura role and she brings it off with a chilling malevolence and a strange, disjointed vulnerability that almost, but not quite, makes her sympathetic. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
The film walks the fine line between exploitation and empathy to cast a chilly, memorable spell. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Part of the film's failure to arouse real horror is the languid direction; not enough seems to be at stake emotionally. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBernard Besserglik
U.S. viewers may be put off by its tangled sexual motifs and find its implied social critique a little close to the bone. But even Stateside, Julianne Moore, in her most challenging role in years, will win plaudits and attract mature audiences to a thoroughly absorbing and polished piece of work. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Howard A. Rodman's script has a lot of juice, and the rhythms are so pregnant that the air vibrates with something, even if you're not sure what. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Julianne Moore proves game for anything in this pitch-black true-crime reconstruction. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The director, Tom Kalin, stages acid duels, but he should have provided more psychological structure. Though Moore, a great actress, turns fury into verbal music, we're never quite sure what's driving her. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Savage Grace should have the force of Greek tragedy, but Kalin's chamber drama feels curiously stifling and flat, and Moore's volatile turn isn't enough to quicken its pulse. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Living these lives, for these people, must have been sad and tedious, and so, inevitably, is their story, and it must be said, the film about it. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A chilly inquest into very bad behavior, Savage Grace is presented to us like an entrée at a five-star French restaurant. It's decadence under glass. Read full review
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