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| CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999) - R
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ReviewScore: 56 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Cruel Intentions, a modern retelling of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses set in New York, is receiving mostly cruel reactions from critics. Comparing the film with the John Malkovich-Glenn Close film version, Rod Dreher in the New York Post comments: "Cruel Intentions demonstrates the difference between good trash and bad." Jami Bernard calls the movie a "Cliff Notes approach to literature." (Interestingly both she and Stephen Holden in the cross-town New York Times compare the fresh-faced actors playing jaded characters to the child cast of Bugsy Malone trying to play gangsters.) But Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times gives the film a thumbs-up, saying that it's "smart and merciless in the tradition of the original story." And Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times concludes that the film "honors the spirit" of the novel "with admirable fidelity." |
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