Wicker Park
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: September 3, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
12
Negative:
15
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38
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Structure overwhelms everything, but it's not as if Wicker Park has nothing to say. It's full of ugly truths about emotional frailty, and implies that stalking is a bad thing only when you're not charming enough about it. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
One of the silliest, most sieve-like screenplays of the year. Read full review
38
PremiereAaron Hillis
What begins as a pleasantly utilitarian thriller gradually decays into a mediocre suspense drama and ends as an irritatingly feeble love story. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
If Alfred Hitchcock were retarded, lobotomized, and freshly dug up, he might possibly c--- out a movie like this one. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
May have been adapted the 1996 French film "L'Appartement," but pretty much all evidence of what was once an engaging psychodrama has been lost in the translation. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
An elegant tale of romantic obsession weighed down by a needlessly convoluted plot that yields far more confusion than psychological suspense. Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Takes plenty of twists and turns, each so implausible and silly that you have no interest whatsoever in finding out what the next one will be. The director, Paul McGuigan, is fond of fancy split-screen effects and stylish, snappy cutting, but he can't tell a story to save his life. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A convoluted exercise in shifting perspectives and fractured storytelling. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The whole incoherent mess is sort of like a downbeat Gap ad, only longer and a lot more boring. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerDavid Hiltbrand
A dementedly artificial and artsy film, a headache-inducing jumble of fractured narrative, flashbacks within flashbacks, and shifting perspectives. Read full review
25
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Emotionally stultifying and brain-dead. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
The studio behind Wicker Park bills it as a "romantic thriller.'' But it's actually an example of an even more unusual subgenre: the dumb, suspense- free and undersexed stalker drama. Read full review
20
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
A limp and exceedingly uninvolving melodrama. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
Built on such a goofy premise that your average soap-opera scriptwriter would laugh it out of a story meeting.
10
Film ThreatKevin Carr
The characters’ actions here are goofy, immature, unsettling and at times downright silly. Read full review
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