
	Where results make sense

Topic: Wicker Park (movie)

	Wicker Park Movie - The Hollywood News
		Wicker Park is being advertised as a thriller.
		As the movie continued to unfold, the proceedings became somewhat silly, but surprisingly, the movie does have some smarts, particularly in the final act in which certain characters see how selfish they've been and begin to realize the error of their ways.
		Wicker Park is slow rather than patient, and to me, there's a big difference between the two.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/wickerpark.htm (902 words)

	Wicker Park Movie Review - Wicker Park Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Movies that are entertainingly nuts don't come around very often, and when they do they need to be given their due.
		"Wicker Park" starts to get genuinely strange when Matt hides in Lisa's apartment and is surprised by a completely different woman (Rose Byrne) who says her name is Lisa, too.
		"Wicker Park" is goofy enough to insist you can't have true love without a Coldplay song playing in the background, but it's slick enough to make you want to buy the CD anyway.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=5748 (643 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Wicker Park" Movie Review
		Thus is the world of “Wicker Park,” Scottish director Paul McGuigan’s intriguing and ultimately satisfying remake of Gillles Mimouni’s French classic “L’Appartement.” Flipping time, space and the nature of love on its head, McGuigan successfully juggles the film’s complex narrative, crafting an elegant romantic thriller that easily rates as one of the year’s biggest surprises.
		“Wicker Park” is an otherworldly dream, and as it progressed I couldn’t help but inch more and more up in my seat to take it all in.
		As much as “Wicker Park” kept me on my toes, it never took me off my feet, and just as events should soar to a rarified conclusion of love and longing, the film suddenly drips into soap opera theatrics almost counteracting the beauteous netherworld so skillfully developed early on.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/w/wickerpark.htm (1249 words)

	Wicker Park - Movie Rental Review
		The movie has brief strong language, some explicit sexual references, and non-explicit sexual situations.
		It turns out to be one of those movies that sets up an intriguing puzzle and a nicely spooky vibe and then spoils it all by explaining too much and having that explanation be both achingly obvious and sometimes unintentionally hilarious, retroactively dissipating any creepiness created earlier and dumb-ifying the entire story even further.
		This is one of those movies that depends on its characters' inability to make a phone call or ask a question to straighten things out.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Wicker-Park.html (866 words)

	Wicker Park - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		Some of the men were complaining that following Wicker Park was too much like work, and those that did follow the twists and turns still complained about the complexity.
		Wicker Park proceeds to become the closest thing to a movie about stalker than any romance should -- and for reasons verging on unbelievable coincidence, Matthew finds himself face to face with the wrong girl.
		Wicker Park falls smack in the middle of disposable dateflicks that adequately kill two hours in the dark without being too painful to endure.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive04/wickerpark.html (652 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- Neon: MOVIE REVIEW: Wicker Park
		But "Wicker Park" can't even approach the level of such latter-day shockers as "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct," which at least managed to generate some energy and genuine tension as they went through their overheated, connect-the-dots paces.
		When "Wicker Park" begins its meandering trail, our hero, Matthew (Josh Hartnett), a photographer turned advertising sellout, is about to settle into, and for, an outwardly comfortable life.
		From their murky motivations to their blander-than-bland personalities, "Wicker Park's" central characters threaten to fade away even in the midst of a dramatic crisis.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2004/Sep-03-Fri-2004/weekly/24671290.html (749 words)

	Wicker Park - Rotten Tomatoes
		Nothing in the movie is what it appears to be, which is unfortunate since, at the outset at least, what it appears to be is interesting.
		Wicker Park's story and execution are exercises in obfuscation, but sadly, in both cases, all the smoke and mirrors are working hard to obscure nothing of interest.
		Once we understand the principle (if not the details) of the plot, Wicker Park works because the actors invest their scenes with what is, under the circumstances, astonishing emotional realism.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/wicker_park (1007 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Wicker Park
		Wicker Park is a remake of a 1996 French film that nobody saw, called L’Appartement.
		If the premise of Wicker Park holds any interest with you, you’d best go see it soon, as the film is unfortunately destined to meet a similar fate as its predecessor.
		Byrne is incidentally the prime reason you should see this movie: She imbues her character with all the uncertainty and obsession of a teenager who never really grew up.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/0/446F90F470641F3D88256F020073E2E3?OpenDocument (690 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - VANITY FAIR
		We see that he used to work in a TV and Video repair shop near Wicker Park and his co worker was working on a video camcorder that is playing on the screens when he sees Lisa on the screen and is taken away with her beauty.
		Next he is driving her home and she gets out and he starts to drive off and then backs up and runs up to her apartment and knocks and he rushes in to her arms and they make love.
		We cut to him in Wicker Park and waiting around and then he heads home dissapointed and checks him machine and there are no messages.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/wickerpark.html (2110 words)

	"Wicker Park" Movie Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
		However, “Wicker Park” had that effect on me. Even the rest of the audience didn’t buy it and ended up laughing at the emotional moments near the end of the film.
		“Wicker Park” is such a horrible film not entirely for what it is, but for what it could have been and should have been.
		After a year of ups and downs in the movie world, “Wicker Park” has earned a special place in my cold, fl heart and is currently the reigning champ as worst film of 2004.
	www.7mpictures.com /inside/reviews/wickerpark_review.htm (761 words)

	Joe Critic \| "Wicker Park" Movie Review & More
		Wicker Park stars Josh Hartnett as Matthew, an advertising executive about to marry his boss’s sister when he thinks he sees the love of his life, who just up-and-disappeared from his life two years ago.
		This is one of those movies that unravels itself right before your eyes, each revelation ads another piece to the puzzle creating a climax that won’t shock you but will put you in a cinematic limbo until it is resolved.
		Wicker Verdana"> Park Verdana"> is different; sure, I probably wouldn’t be complaining if they used more normal cinematography, but for once this way actually seems to have an effect on both the tone of the movie and how we feel about the characters.
	www.joecritic.com /revarchives/00000263.htm (593 words)

	Wicker Park - The Filthy Critic
		Wicker Park is an "erotic thriller" written by that fat girl in your high school class who ate lunch by herself and was believed to have masturbated with her piccolo in French class.
		In fact, all of Wicker Park's action is predicated not by logic or moral, but by some fucking asshole screenwriter's idiotic belief that we won't notice that none of it makes sense if the characters pout and mope a lot.
		Wicker Park is advertised as creepy and it is, but not for any of the reasons it thinks.
	www.bigempire.com /filthy/wickerpark.html (1245 words)

	KidScore Movie Reviews Wicker Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This movie was too far fetched with too many coincidences in it to really entertain me. The question of love at first sight is presented.
		Linda has been a lover of movies since she was a small child.
		Linda sees over 150 movies a year and has had the opportunity to interview a number of directors and actors when they are in town.
	www.mediafamily.org /kidscore/movies_wicker_park.shtml (449 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Wicker Park" movie review (2004) "Wicker Park" review, Paul McGuigan, Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger
		Angularly pretty Diane Kruger -- the entirely underwhelming Helen of this summer's "Troy" -- is said girl, whom we meet in several fantastically structured flashbacks that come as jolts of memory at pivotal moments and fill in the histories of various characters, begetting startling plot developments in the process.
		McGuigan imbues "Wicker Park" with a disorienting atmosphere and visual style, using available windowpanes and deep focus techniques like a split-screen effect to show simultaneous actions and emotions upon which the narrative twists and turns.
		"Wicker Park" has a few other problems, most notably the fact that no one from Matthew's office ever checks in with him to find out why the heck he never showed up in China.
	www.splicedonline.com /04reviews/wickerpark.html (488 words)

	A Movie Parable: Wicker Park
		In Wicker Park, after having his heart broken by a woman who suddenly left without explanation, Matthew (Josh Hartnett) moved from Chicago to New York where he found a new career and a new woman.
		The trailers for Wicker Park make it out to be a suspenseful crime/thriller story of psychotic identity theft a la Single White Female.
		The girls of Wicker Park are attractive but because of the film's secrets, are not able to show a great deal of character depth lest they give away the ending.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2004/wickerpk.asp (631 words)

	Wicker Park film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Wicker Park will be released in the US on R1 DVD on the 28th December 2004.
		Scenes for the movie (Wicker Park) were being filmed this past January 18th and 19th in downtown Montréal.
		The movie will tell the tale of a man and his obsessive search for a lost love from his past that ends up uncovering the twisted machinations of an eccentric secret admirer.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/w/wickerpark.shtm (840 words)

	CNS Movie Review: Wicker Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		NEW YORK (CNS) -- In "Wicker Park" (MGM), heartthrob Josh Hartnett plays a young advertising executive obsessed with finding out why the girl of his dreams took off without so much as a kiss goodbye, let alone an explanation or forwarding address.
		Set in Chicago, the movie -- a remake of the French film "L'Appartement" -- awkwardly shifts gears between romantic melodrama and suspense, neither providing enough emotional torque to power the story in its uphill battle against the overall lackluster material.
		The movie touches on themes of truth, trust, envy and self-image, but to characterize its treatment of these issues as anything but superficial would be a stretch.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/movies/04mv383.htm (546 words)

	'Wicker Park' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		"Wicker Park" is an elegant tale of romantic obsession weighed down by a needlessly convoluted plot that yields far more confusion than psychological suspense.
		At this point "Wicker Park" plunges its audience into a plethora of flashbacks that soon make it all but impossible to distinguish one time frame from another with any degree of certainty — and it doesn't help matters that the entire film seems to take place in wintertime.
		It's essential to remember that when Matthew first glimpses Lisa in Chicago's Wicker Park from a store across the street, a pretty brunet, Alex (Rose Byrne), is laying eyes on him for the first time.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-wicker3sep03,2,59959.story (614 words)

	Wicker Park : film review
		Wicker Park is a very tiring and lame remodel of the excellent 1996 French film L'Appartement, written and directed by Gilles Mimouni.
		Wicker Park's problem is that it gets itself so confused trying to be clever that all interest in the story disappears until the ending when the mystery unravels and everything is settled.
		With more contortions and turns than a drunken game of Twister, Wicker Park is a highly unlikable, uninteresting and contrived remake of an intriguing and provocative piece of contemporary European cinema.
	www.musicomh.com /films/wicker-park.htm (584 words)

	Christopher Smith : Week in Rewind.com Wicker Park Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		“Wicker Park,” the astonishingly stupid, convoluted remake of the 1996 French thriller, “L’Appartement,” attempts to press audiences into the grooves of a non-linear story, one that’s so fractured, it breaks onscreen.
		Dumping the Shanghai trip, he launches into action, with the movie itself launching back and forth in time in an effort to explain how their relationship went wrong.
		“Wicker Park” wants to work by evasion, but it doesn’t generate interest in what it withholds.
	www.weekinrewind.com /Reviews/u-z/WickerPark.htm (387 words)

	Review: Wicker Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wicker Park 's narrative is constructed as a puzzle, with each scene revealing more details about the characters and the unexpected ways in which their paths have crossed.
		Wicker Park re-unites two of the female leads from Troy.
		One of the reasons I think Wicker Park works is because it tells a story that could be presented as a thriller in a straightforward, dramatic fashion.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/w/wicker_park.html (685 words)

	Wicker Park Movie Review
		WICKER PARK stars Josh Hartnett and Diane Kruger, two excruciatingly lightweight actors with zero chemistry, as lovers Matthew and Lisa.
		Why this winter movie, set in a snowy Chicago, gets released in the waning days of summer is a mystery worth pondering.
		To the extent that WICKER PARK works at all, it is because of a small but scene-stealing performance by Matthew Lillard as Luke, Matthew's best buddy.
	www.killermovies.com /w/wickerpark/reviews/m2c.html (406 words)

	Modamag.com \| Wicker Park - Movie Review
		In a subtle tribute to writer/director Gilles Mimouni's "L'Appartement," the pivotal restaurant is called Belluci's, since that film starred Monica Belluci and Vincent Cassel, and Paul McGuigan evokes memories of Hitchcock's camerawork.
		On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Wicker Park" is a convoluted, obsessive, exasperating 4.
		And this "sticky wicker" is one of them.
	www.modamag.com /wickerpark.htm (267 words)

	Wicker Park Movie at Movie-Source.com - Movie Review and/or Movie Preview
		The previews for "Wicker Park" were mightily deceiving, as they made out the lies Byrne's character tells into what appeared to be a stalker obsession.
		The movie was marketed as a thriller, but apparently no one was interested in seeing a thriller as the film tanked at the box office and opened to horrendous reviews.
		"Wicker Park" is a compelling romantic drama that edges into thriller territory at times, but more than anything else just works with the careful execution of complicated storytelling.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=1486 (677 words)

	Movie Review Wicker Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Scenes for the movie (Wicker Park) were being filmed this past January 18th...
		"Wicker Park" is a classy psychological thriller that challenges the audience...
		McGuigan imbues "Wicker Park" with a disorienting atmosphere...
	www.movies1210.com /dvd-movies/movie-review-wicker-park.html (634 words)

	Disney Movie Classics :: Wicker Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Comment: In reading the publicity releases for WICKER PARK, I was expecting a "psychological thriller." Rest assured, this movie is not a thriller at all.
		The movie uses flashbacks to show us what is really going on, but an astute viewer should see the "twists" coming.
		The first half of the movie is told with numerous flashbacks, as the director weaves in what happened two years before with the current state of affairs (pun intended).
	disney-movie-classics.hupsu.net /Wicker_Park-B00067BBMS.html (1016 words)

	Wicker Park - zBoneman Movie Reviews
		Wicker Park offers a handful of pseudo-clever moments that manage carry it to its lengthy finish line.
		Wicker Park couldn't have been less interestng if it were a 2 hour guided tour through Pier One imports
		Wicker Park shoots itself in the foot by trying to be too clever for it's own goood.
	www.zboneman.com /movies/Wicker-Park-977.html (1512 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Wicker Park
		These points in all our lives are what the new film, “Wicker Park” is trying to explore.
		“Wicker Park” is a remake of the 1996 French film, “L’Appartement” which starred Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci.
		The best way to describe “Wicker Park” is that it is what a film would be like if a director took a French film studies course and decided to remake his favorite film from that course.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews.php?id=wickerpark (686 words)

	Wicker Park - Car Forums and Automotive Chat
		Yes, the bible is better than the movie, the bible is a great book in general (the best book made, in the eyes of many), but the movie is to show you how he suffered.
		You have every right to believe the movie as real and buy it and watch it over and over again, reassuring yourself that your belief is true.
		Now, as you have said, this is a discussion of the movie "Wicker Park" so lets put this arguing to the side and be on with it.
	www.automotiveforums.com /t282167-wicker_park.html (1329 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)