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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
With its exotic setting and its beautiful cast, this Dangerous Liaisons is lovely rather than wicked. Full Review
David Fear
Time Out New York
Revenge may be a dish best served cold, as the novel suggested, but steamy adaptations simply can't be doled out lukewarm. Full Review
Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
Schadenfreude carries a delectable tang no matter the language, and as the history of Hollywood shows, stories about pretty people behaving badly remain reliably alluring. Full Review
Mark Jenkins
NPR
Relocating Dangerous Liaisons, the 18th-century French erotic intrigue, to 1930s Shanghai is a bold move. And yet it's not especially surprising. In Chinese movies, that city in that decade frequently serves as shorthand for decadence. Full Review
Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
The least one should hope for from another adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Dangerous Liaisons is savory, salacious trash, but nothing in Hur Jin-ho's tony new version approaches the dizzying depths of Sarah Michelle Gellar spelling out the conditions of her sex bet with Ryan Phillippe ("You can put it anywhere . . .") in 1999's "Cruel Intentions." Full Review
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