Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
8 |
After you see the movie, run through it again in your mind. Who wants what? Who gets what? Who decides what? Whose needs are gratified? Egoyan never makes a story with one level. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
5 |
...a conundrum. Envisioned as a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned, instead director Atom Egoyan's latest puzzle is little more than a messy affair with mood lighting, sexy lingerie, heavy breathing and swelling, um, music. |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
7 |
...Chloe's Hitchcockian overtones and apt pacing mark a welcome return to form for Egoyan. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
5 |
...might have worked better as an out-and-out popcorn flick starring, say, Jennifer Lopez. |
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker |
5 |
...feels too hollow, a sexy but largely unilluminating narrative that finally devolves into a fairly conventional thriller. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
5 |
The best of Egoyan's films (The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica) deserve serious attention. Not this time. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
5 |
...plodding and drab. We're a step ahead of Egoyan's tricks, and that's because we've seen them — all of them — before. |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
5 |
...becomes tedious and mechanical. When it's over, you're left feeling kind of cheap. |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
5 |
...a conundrum. Envisioned as a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned, instead director Atom Egoyan's latest puzzle is little more than a messy affair with mood lighting, sexy lingerie, heavy breathing and swelling, um, music. |
People
Alynda Wheat |
3 |
...soft-core porn without the courage of its convictions. |
LA Weekly
J. Hoberman |
6 |
The grotesque finale aside, it's all too soigné to be truly risible, but, thanks to Egoyan's trademark mix of detachment and prurience, the fun is more cheesy than queasy. |
Village Voice
J. Hoberman |
6 |
The grotesque finale aside, it's all too soigné to be truly risible, but, thanks to Egoyan's trademark mix of detachment and prurience, the fun is more cheesy than queasy. |
Onion AV Club
Keith Phipps |
6 |
It all goes awry in the end, but for a good stretch, Chloe neatly fixes Egoyan’s career-long obsessions with identity and communication to the familiar framework of the erotic thriller. |
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