Mary Reilly

Instead of tapping the theatrical heart of the material, Frears and Hampton reduce the three major characters to drawing room stiffs who sit around explaining their passion instead of acting on it.For most of the movie, Jekyll and Hyde engage in windy Freudian dialectics about civilization and desire, the imprisonment of the soul, and so forth. ( Read More )

Marc Savlov

A gothic little slip of a film, beautiful to behold but with less substance than the shadowy tendrils of fog that blanket nearly every scene. ( Read More )

Walter V. Addiego

With the exception of a couple of inspired moments, Mary Reilly is merely a curious variation of an often told story. ( Read More )

Chris Hicks

Mary Reilly is Roberts worst misfire to date, despite the fact that on paper it must have looked awfully good. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

For me, it offers the fascination of secrets, dreads and guilts.Modern horror is too easily explained; indeed, the real world has outrun horror, and the headlines are now worse than anything Stephen King can imagine. ( Read More )