Review: The Rules Of Attraction
I did not like any of the characters in " The Rules of Attraction ." I cringe to write those words, because they imply a superficial approach to ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 10/11/02
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When a Fight Is a Thrill And Sex Is Just a Bore
The NY Times review of The Rules of Attraction, a Roger Avary film starring James Van Der Beek and Ian Somerhalder. The Rules of Attraction movie ...
The New York Times - Stephen Holden - 10/11/02
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Review: Rules of Attraction, The
Once you get past all of the wild camera tricks and visual gimmickry, you arrive at the core of The Rules of Attraction and find out that it's ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Review: RULES OF ATTRACTION, THE
Further proving that so-so books often make better movies than good ones, writer-director Roger Avary pulls Bret Easton Ellis's second novel out ...
TV Guide - Ken Fox
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Mean, cruel, abhorrent, obscene ...
The Rules Of Attraction is one of the most intriguing if repulsive movies of 2002. The compulsive element that catches your interest is that the ...
Canoe.ca - BRUCE KIRKLAND - 10/11/02
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BBC - Films - review - The Rules of Attraction
Roger Avary's dark satire of college highs and lows, adapted from the novel by "American Psycho" author, Bret Easton Ellis. ...
BBC - Nev Pierce - 03/24/03
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Review: RULES OF ATTRACTION
Roger Avary treats his adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' portrait of shallow, avaricious and miserable sensation junkies as black comedy. ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Editorial Review
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JoBlo's movie review of The Rules of Attraction: James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian ..
A rockin', rollin', all-around kickass highly stylized adventure through the twisted lives of a handful of college students all looking to get ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian
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Review: Rules of Attraction
I wondered while laboring through Roger Avary s new film The Rules of Attraction if, now that Im approaching 30, I ve lost my appreciation for ...
FilmCritic.com - Kevin Smokler
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Review: Rules Of Attraction, The (2002)
For a motion picture opening in wide release (and targeted at a college-age demographic), "The Rules of Attraction" is one of the most ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman - 10/12/02
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Superficial Attraction
Talk about thwarted libidos. Paul Denton has the hots for the sullen campus drug dealer Sean Bateman, but Sean wants to bed Paul's former ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON - 10/11/02
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Review: The Rules of Attraction
If it is possible, "The Rules of Attraction" actually isn't trashy enough to do justice to its source material. That would be Bret Easton Ellis' ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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Gross Us Out
James Van Der Beek (foreground) and Clifton Collins Jr. in "The Rules of Attraction." THE RULES OF ATTRACTION SHALLOWNESS and preening self-regard ...
New York Post - Jonathan Foreman - 10/11/02
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Review: The Rules of Attraction
The Rules of Attraction has style. This shouldn't be mistaken for class, which is completely different much more desirable, but there is no ...
Kinnopio.com - Craig Roush
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Review: The Rules Of Attraction
The big screen has a very difficult time capturing the talent of James Van Der Beek - literally. The aspect ratio of projected film simply cannot ...
Film Threat - Todd Levin - 10/15/02
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Review: The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Tom Block, writing in these pages about another film based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel, said: " American Psycho has all the trappings of a ...
CultureVulture.net - Arthur Lazere - 10/10/02
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Review: The Rules of Attraction
Ian Somerhalder in The Rules of Attraction. Brett Easton Ellis is the king of scabrous literature, never more evident than in this misogynistic ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth
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Movie Review for The Rules of Attraction - 2004-04-14
When writing about a movie, I often try to write in the mood and tone conveyed by the film itself. However, I hope you ll forgive me if I don t ...
Cinema Blend - Joshua Tyler - 04/14/04
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Review: The Rules Of Attraction
That s it! The teen/college mold has been broken! In fact, it s not only been broken, it s been dragged out onto the football field and cornholed ...
Film Threat - Eric Campos - 10/11/02
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THE RULES OF ATTRACTION Film Review
A sequel of sorts to "American Psycho," in that it is based on a book by "Psycho" author Brett Easton Ellis and features the infamous Patrick ...
Boxoffice Online - Annlee Ellingson
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Review: The Rules of Attraction
This may be the most despairing college sex comedy ever, which is apt since director Roger Avary is adapting the 1987 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: The Rules Of Attraction
Too strong for most and you can bet critics will howl. But for our money, Avary filters American Pie through Requiem For A Dream to create America ...
Empire Online - Alan Morrison
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Nasty but nave 'Rules' fails to attract
The Boston Globe - Ty Burr, Globe Staff - 10/11/02
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Review: Rules of Attraction, The (2002)
This movie tracks the lives of three students at a small, affluent New England college as they attempt to make sense of their respective love ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - JoBlo
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What are the rules? Read a love letter, dance in your underwear, and love yourself.
Pros the cast, especially Ian Somerhalder and Shannyn Sossaman. James Van Der Beek in places. Cons James Van Der Beek in places. ...
Epinions - tigger500 - 10/13/02
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