Asylum (2005)

offers a bleak vision of the Fifties, where an outbreak of passion or an artistic impulse would be quickly subjected, like any other madness, to containment.

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07/02/07

A little like Jack the Ripper in outer space.

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03/26/07

Despite a superb cast, artful set design and seductive cinematography, Asylum remains a lovingly lensed missed opportunity.

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02/22/07

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05/12/06

Asylum had promise. But it's bad enough to make one wonder just who had the loose screws -- the characters, or the people who filmed them?

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09/16/05

There is nothing to Stella's character -- or any of these characters, for that matter -- that you can relate to.

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09/15/05

So obsessed with rendering Patrick McGrath's exquisitely twisted Gothic novel as a refined affair that it forgets less ambitious pursuits, like sussing out a way to keep us awake.

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09/15/05

Based on Pat McCabe's moody novel, Asylum has an over-the-top feverishness that suits its premise.

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09/15/05

...oh, look at all the crazy people.

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09/15/05

Marton Csokas ... comes across as a hybrid of Russell Crowe and Clive Owen in full-on brooding mode and has a genuine chemistry with Richardson that goes some way to explaining why she stays with him as a long as she does.

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09/10/05

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09/09/05

The film wryly wonders whether the lunatics have taken over not just the asylum but the entire world as well.

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09/04/05

A troubling psychological drama about illicit passion leading to tragedy.

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09/03/05

It's a lost cause.

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09/03/05