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(1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh Page   1   "Una forma esquizofrénica de comprender el mundo, de describir el amor, y de narrar las ideas básicas que nos definen como seres humanos..."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez 3/5 "Spider doesn't exhibit anything approaching character growth -- he's an enigma trapped in a personal Mobius strip of his life, which unfortunately doesn't make for much of a movie."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null "Even more impressively, the movie works and reworks the Oedipal business, less as a given than a myth with extremely troubling origins and consequences."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 57/100 "This sorta over-ripe Freudianism is, like, so-o-o-o yesterday."   Cinemania   Dan Jardine 2/4 "Spider is an earnestly wrought but shallow exercise that never really gets under the skin."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth A+ "An unforgettable masterpiece."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "It's not clear whether the film's uneasy ambiguity is intentional or merely the result of pretension or lact of artistic control."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 4/4 "The film's grayish mise-en-scene evokes the texture of a spider web, and the film's characters appear to hang from that web."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "Flawed but rewarding, and very memorable."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov A "While structurally dense and very deliberately paced, it's also surprisingly delicate, almost gossamer...the work of a great filmmaker at the top of his form."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "A macabre and intense psychological drama exploring memory and the dangers that can ensue from the far-fetched stories we tell ourselves about what is real."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 4/4 "a deeply moving portrait of the fragility of human sanity, leaving us with open-ended questions about the nature of truth and the unreliability of our own memories"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3.5/5 "Cronenberg pieces together a compelling portrait of madness, but one which lacks the poignancy to be a rich, moving character study."   Los Angeles Alternative   Jay Antani 3/4 "David Cronenberg doing what he does best - disturbing, challenging, commendable work."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "Quiet, subtly haunting, and presented as a puzzle ... However, the film's minimalism and fractured nature create a distant atmosphere."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 4/5 "Spider is mortifying entertainment, made at the hands of one of the most dynamic and thoughtful craftsmen in the industry."   ToxicUniverse.com   Jeremiah Kipp 4/4 "The end result oddly seems revolutionary precisely because it tosses out so much cinematic technique, achieving far more technical excitement and emotional effect that one would think possible with what seems to be such effortless direction."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 6.5/10 "Worth checking out."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 7/10 "A definite downer but wonderfully portrayed and a pleasantly dark experience all around."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 9/10 "David Cronenberg's most restrained and most realized picture to date. It's like a David Lynch film, except you can understand it."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3 "What Cronenberg achieves ultimately in his latest mind bender is the full-scale distraction of his audience."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 5/5 "Spider reminds us, through its lead character, that human imagination is many things all at once: mechanistic, wondrous, stunted, unique, distressing, erotic, tragic."   ToxicUniverse.com   Keith Uhlich B- "A tantalizing triptych from Miranda Richardson, playing Spider's mother as well as his delusional hallucinations, and a convincing portrayal of the isolation of mental illness by Fiennes cannot energize a story that moves slowly toward an inevitable and u"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/5 "Its minutely detailed revelations work their way under the skin like slivers of glass."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4/4 "It isn't a film; it's a nightmare."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 4/4 "We can't know the objective truth about Spider, but we can watch and find him fascinating"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes 5/5 "Every new Cronenberg film promises to deepen his reputation. "   Daily-Reviews   Mike Pinsky "With Spider...Cronenberg has crafted his most personal and, quite possibly his best, film."   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte B+ "... Cronenberg's most disciplined exploration yet of that shadowy realm: the world refracted through the prism of a schizophrenic mind."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "It ... can be viewed a second time with a different perspective, without having the feeling of being 'cheated' the first time around"   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Shane Burridge 4/4 "Tackles the primacy of sexual desire from an alien's outsider perspective: a quest in which the auteur has arguably been involved since the beginning of his career."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 4/4 Read review   Zertinet Movies   David Johnson Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline  (1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh Page   1