Wicker Park Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The studio behind Wicker Park bills it as a "romantic thriller.'' But it's actually an example of an even more unusual subgenre: the dumb, suspense- free and undersexed stalker drama.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
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
Built on such a goofy premise that your average soap-opera scriptwriter would laugh it out of a story meeting.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
A limp and exceedingly uninvolving melodrama.Read the full review
May have been adapted the 1996 French film "L'Appartement," but pretty much all evidence of what was once an engaging psychodrama has been lost in the translation.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
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
