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Avg. Critic Score: 40 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Not for kids 15 and under
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    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 full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    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 full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    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 full review

  • 50
    Variety | Scott Foundas

    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 full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    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 full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    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 full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

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

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Carla Meyer

    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 full review

  • 20
    Wall Street Journal |

    Built on such a goofy premise that your average soap-opera scriptwriter would laugh it out of a story meeting. Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    A limp and exceedingly uninvolving melodrama. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Not for kids 15 and under This dopey thriller isn't worth your time.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has brief strong language, some explicit sexual references, and non-explicit sexual situations. Characters drink, and one becomes tipsy. There are tense and suspenseful situations and some jump-out-at-you surprises.
  • Families can talk about the dividing line between love and obsession. Do you believe in love at first sight? What do you need to know about someone to be willing to make a commitment?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Tension and suspense.
  • sex false5 Sex: Explicit sexual references and non-explicit sexual situations.
  • language false3 Language: Brief strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, character gets tipsy.
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