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Ripley's Game

2002

Liliana Cavani

John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone, Lena Headey ...

6.1

5,028

Thriller. Mystery Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Terry, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The first four [Ripley movies] are splendid (...) 'Ripley's Game' is without question the best of the four, and John Malkovich is precisely the Tom Ripley I imagine when I read the novels (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Here is a film that manages to be enjoyable and ridiculous in a ratio of about one to three: a mix which isn't quite right (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"It's Malkovich's show. His Ripley has a surface charm that's given an uncomfortably creepy edge, creating a walking contradiction - a lover of delicate art who's also psychotic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"[It] provides plenty of blackly comic enjoyment, but it never really moves. It is also marred by poor production values (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Rooney Variety	"Malkovich’s elegantly malicious performance gives 'Ripley’s Game' a magnetic center, complemented by Liliana Cavani’s efficient direction and an enjoyable retro feel"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Cavani and [cinematographer Alfio Contini] take few risks in translating storyboard to screen, shooting 'Ripley's Game' with the flat tedium of a TV drama. But for all its lack of style there's something compelling about the excursion"	NEU

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