Wicker Park Critic Reviews

It would be tempting to say that fractured time sequences in movies have become a cliché, except that Wicker Park makes your brain spin in surprising and pleasurable ways.Read the full review

Diane Kruger, whose Lisa is subjected to logical whiplash by the plot, always seems to know when it is and how she should feel. Now that's acting.Read the full review

As the movie approached the end credits, I cared about what happened to these characters, and that made the coincidences and occasional missteps forgivable.Read the full review

This is a smart movie, full of astonishing reverses and switchbacks, and it adroitly walks the thin line between too clever by half and not clever enough by three-quarters.Read the full review

Movies that are entertainingly nuts don't come around very often, and when they do they need to be given their due.Read the full review

All of this was more enjoyable when Bellucci, Cassel and Bohringer were the stars. Hartnett is overly methodical here as Matthew, and Kruger, as in "Troy," is beautiful but lacking in dramatic intensity.Read the full review

The French original was a clever Hitchcock homage with a murder at its center. For reasons unknown, the murder plot has been dropped from the remake (though a few confusing traces of it remain), which leaves Wicker Park without much real urgency to drive its extremely contrived plot.Read the full review

Instead of building toward a grand romantic climax, it just gets sillier before exploding into a torrent of unintended laughs.Read the full review

An elegant tale of romantic obsession weighed down by a needlessly convoluted plot that yields far more confusion than psychological suspense.Read the full review