Review: The Shape Of Things
The world of Neil LaBute is a battleground of carnage between the sexes. Men and women distrust one another, scheme to humiliate one another, ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
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A College as Eden, and a Most Nasty (Human) Serpent
The NY Times review of The Shape of Things, a Neil LaBute film starring Gretchen Mol and Paul Rudd. The Shape of Things movie trailer, showtimes, ...
The New York Times - A. O. Scott
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Review: Shape of Things, The
If Neil LaBute's views about love and human relationships are represented by what appears in his motion pictures, then to call him a cynic would ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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'Shape' fits in with director's works
If you're looking for a genre, I'm afraid you have to settle for the new Neil LaBute movie being a Neil LaBute movie, which means getting comfy ...
The Boston Globe - Wesley Morris, Globe Staff
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Review: SHAPE OF THINGS, THE
Adapted from his own stage play with the original cast intact, this installment in Neil LaBute's ongoing examination of the war between men and ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Fit To Be Tired
THE SHAPE OF THINGS Needs a makeover. Running time: 96 minutes. Rated R (profanity, sexuality). At the Lincoln Square and the Loews Village. ...
New York Post - Lou Lumenick
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JoBlo's movie review of The Shape Of Things: Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Mol
Continuing where he left off in films like IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS, bad-boy raconteur Neil LaBute is back in full ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian
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BBC - Films - The Shape Of Things
Rachel Weisz stars in a superb and sexy take on Pygmalion, from director Neil LaBute. Knowledge devours Vertigo in Neil LaBute's bruising and ...
BBC - Nev Pierce - 11/24/03
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Review: The Shape of Things (2003)
Following a pair of tonally lighter films (2000's " Nurse Betty ," 2002's " Possession "), Neil LaBute, a writer-director more famous for exposing ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman - 05/10/03
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Review: The Shape of Things
Adam (Paul Rudd), a nerdy guard, and Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), a cool art student, meet at a museum exhibit. He tries to stop her from defacing a ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: The Shape of Things
Neil LaBute's latest, about a wretched art student who makes over her boyfriend, could be the edgiest film of the year -- if the year were 1982. ...
Salon - Andrew O'Hehir
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Review: The Shape of Things
"She thinks you're just about perfect now..." You have to let this one sink in a little bit. I emerged from Neil LaBute's latest misanthropy-fest ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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Review: The Shape of Things
Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz in The Shape of Things Neil LaBute loves to stir up controversy. He came out of the box with a bang with the ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth - 05/10/03
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Review: The Shape of Things
Neil LaBute, you're a cruel, cruel man. After the somewhat senseless Your Friends and Neighbors and the bafflingly bad period piece Possession ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: The Shape of Things
Neil LaBute s first two films, In the Company of Men (1997) and Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), focused on selfish, cruel characters capable of ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS Film Review
After the diversions Nurse Betty and Possession, writer/director Neil LaBute revisits the unsettling cynicism of his first two battle-of-the-sexes ...
Boxoffice Online - Annlee Ellingson
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Review: The Shape of Things
The reason for this thing was the reaction to LaBute s first film. "In the Company of Men" was a classic. An evil film about evil people with ...
Greenwich Village Gazette - Eric Lurio
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Review: The Shape Of Things
People who presumed Possession was proof that Neil LaBute had gone soft should engage with, if not exactly enjoy, this female rejoinder to In The ...
Empire Online - Colin Kennedy
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Review #666: You Can Paint His Nails, Make Him Wear High Heels
Pros Direction, Screenplay, Music of Elvis Costello, Cast, & Look. Cons A Castrating Ending. The Bottom Line "The Shape of Things" is An Ugly, ...
Epinions - thevoid99 - 07/15/04
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Review: Shape of Things, The (2003)
SHAPE OF THINGS, THE (director/writer: Neil LaBute; screenwriter: from Mr. LaBute's play; cinematographer: James L. Carter; editor: Joel Plotch; ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dennis Schwartz - 05/29/03
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Review: Shape of Things, The (2003)
A goofy, ugly, nerdy college student meets a cute, sexy, groovy art student and develops the balls to actually ask her out on a date. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - JoBlo - 05/12/03
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Review: Shape of Things, The (2003)
Ever since "The Great Train Robbery" hit the screens at the turn of the last century, academics have wondered why the movie-going public simply ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Harvey S. Karten - 05/14/03
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The Shape of Things -- 10 easy ways to make your man do anything
Pros Weisz and Mol, the story, an unexpected ending Cons emptiness of the ending, miscasting of best friend The Bottom Line The Shape of Things is ...
Epinions - three_ster - 03/17/05
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She Loves Me Not: Neil Labute's The Shape of Things (2003)
Pros sharply observed, solid performances Cons not as light as it might at first appear, which will bother some The Bottom Line The Bottom Line is ...
Epinions - lemon_lime - 09/30/03
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Review: Shape of Things, The (2003)
After making two films from the scripts of other writers (the decent Nurse Betty and the monstrous Possession), writer-director Neil LaBute ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Jon Popick - 05/27/03
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