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Rules of Attraction, The (2002) Movie Reviews
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"Excellent" Reviews
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
If you undertake this movie, don't judge it as it goes along. That won't work. It's a film that demands to be seen its entirety before its impact can be felt. Sad, shattering, and unpleasant, it's too vital a work to be ignored.
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"Very Good" Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
The cast is a pitch-perfect assemblage of pretty young things, but James Van Der Beek, as a slit-eyed dorm stud, proves that he can be an actor of cruel force.
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"Good" Reviews
ComingSoon.net (Andy Weil)
I didn't love the movie because the characters are such horrible people, but it led to some intriguing after-movie discussion between my group of friends.
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"Fair" Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Most of the characters are one-dimensional, and Avary's over-the-top directing doesn't make them interesting for more than a few isolated moments.
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"Poor" Reviews
Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
So detestable you must watch it just to see how one filmmaker can fail on every level.
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5,653
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1,845
2002
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261
Comedy
Comedy All Time
of 36,570
1,460
Comedy of 2002
of 858
55
Comedy of the 2000's
of 7,325
452
Drama
Drama All Time
of 38,039
2,893
Drama of 2002
of 1,059
131
Drama of the 2000's
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960
Romance
Romance All Time
of 6,896
905
Romance of 2002
of 231
38
Romance of the 2000's
of 1,742
250
Thriller
Thriller All Time
of 7,028
1,066
Thriller of 2002
of 339
50
Thriller of the 2000's
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342
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