| Spider Review |
| by Balaji Srinivasan (Rating: 3/4) |
| The opening shot of the film is set in a train station in London. A train
arrives; the camera wades through all the people who are leaving the train and
slowly inches its way through. After a minute, a frail man, Dennis Cleg (Ralph
Fiennes) disembarks...more |
| Spider Review |
| by Bob Bloom |
| SPIDER (2003) (Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment): David
Cronenberg's psychological study of one mentally ill individual (Ralph
Fiennes) saw a limited release last year, yet the movie received much
praise. more |
| Spider Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: A+) |
| SPIDER (director: David Cronenberg; screenwriter: Patrick McGrath based on his
novel/Mr. McGrath; cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky; editor: Ronald Sanders;
music: Howard Shore; cast: Ralph Fiennes (Dennis "Spider" Cleg), Miranda
Richardson (Mrs....more |
| Spider Review |
| by Shane Burridge |
| You may be haunted by David Cronenberg's intensive adaptation of Patrick
McGrath's novel, written for the screen by McGrath himself. Certainly
that's the state that 'Spider' Cleg (Ralph Fiennes) is in from start to
finish. Forget other emotive...more |
| Spider Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 2/4) |
| Is it, as would appear on the surface, a psychological drama? If so
there's
very little drama and even less psychology (other than the obvious "bad
parenting
can often lead to loopy kids" theorizing). more |
| Spider Review |
| by Richard A. Zwelling (Rating: 2.5/4) |
| The newest effort from Canadian director David Cronenberg (Crash,
Naked Lunch, The Dead Zone) is one of those unfortunate cases where
the directing, cinematography, and acting are all done very skillfully
in the middle of a story that is a mess. more |
| Spider Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 1.5/4) |
| Terminally tedious, SPIDER is all mood and no movie. By normally outrageous
director David Cronenberg (EXISTENZ and CRASH), it is his first picture that
could be called boring. more |
| Spider Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 9/10) |
| Channeling Freud, Kafka and Hitchcock, as well as various Oedipal issues,
Spider is David Cronenberg's most restrained and most realized picture to
date. It's like a David Lynch film, except you can understand it. I was
hooked from the second it...more |
| Spider Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 7/10) |
| PLOT:
A strange man is let out of an asylum and allowed to live in a housing complex
for former mental institution patients. The man doesn't speak much but slowly
begins to piece together some of the memories from his childhood and soon
uncovers a lot...more |
| Spider Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: B-) |
| A troubled man in scruffy clothes disembarks a train in London and makes his way
to an anonymous row house across the street from a belching gasworks. Mrs.
Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave, "Gods and Monsters") admits Dennis Cleg (Ralph
Fiennes, "Maid in...more |
| Spider Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 3/4) |
| # stars based on 4 stars: 3
Reviewed by: Harvey Karten
Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Written by: Patrick McGrath from his novel
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn
Redgrave
Screened at: Review 2, NYC....more |
