CRITICAL CONSENSUS

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune

Ken Fox - TV Guide Online

A.O. Scott - NY Times

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - AccessAtlanta

Rob Blackwelder - SPLICEDwire

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Marshall Fine - Journal News

Michael Rechtshaffen - Hollywood Reporter

Mike Clark - USA Today

John Anderson - Newsday

Jeremiah Kipp - Slant Magazine

Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com

DUELING CRITICS

"Generates some genuine suspense, and it has loads of menacing atmosphere -- much of it created by [director Jane] Campion's succession of clever, imaginative, sexually teasing directorial touches"

- William Arnold

"A heaping slop of half-thoughts...A pasted-together beast that can't maintain flow for five whole minutes...The inept screenplay swirls and tumbles like a tissue in a hurricane"

- Sean O'Connell