Reviews

The icy heart of the movie is Tierney's turn as Ellen, a woman who seems to have some issues from the start---including an unhealthy fixation on her deceased father---but before our eyes (and, more slowly, before Richard's eyes) morphs into a stone-cold sociopath.

Richard and Ellen initially appear to be established as star-crossed lovers and we are actually kind of excited when she lies to her fiancee to get rid of him, but when Ellen's self-absorbed and obsessive behavior quietly bubbles to the surface, we then want to slap Richard and tell him to wake up b...

She gives Ellen grace, beauty and a strange ethereal quality that makes Ellen attractive and yet reprehensible all at the same time.