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Possession

Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Maud Bailey in the film adaptation of AS Byatt's novel of the same name. Shifting between the 19th and 20th centuries, she and a fellow literary scholar Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart, Erin Brockovich) stumble on clues about an affair between two 19th-century poets, Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam, Gosford Park) and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle). Uncovering more details about the poets' love affair, the scholars end up in a relationship of their own. Directed by Neil LaBute.

Kenneth Turan

The Los Angeles Times

'Although fitting a 555-page book into an hour and 42 minutes of screen time entails a considerable amount of compression as well as the excising of the novel's philosophical underpinnings, overall Possession hews to the outline of the book. We can't go back to a time when a glimpse of bare shoulder took someone's breath away, but Possession will make you wish that we could.'

Stephanie Zacharek

salon.com

'Neil LaBute's Possession takes significant liberties with AS Byatt's novel - it has been smoothed and streamlined and perhaps, at times, too neatly patted into effective movie speech. LaBute obviously approached the project with his hands and his heart open: frame by frame, it's a humble picture, a movie that isn't afraid to be an entertainment. Straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words, Possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it.'

Stephen Hunter

The Washington Post

'Possession seems to be a mutation of English mad cow disease that might be called English mad poet disease. It's literature-crazed, image-haunted, word-gushy, emotion-spewing and endless, like a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne on an absinthe bender. The surprise is that it comes from Neil LaBute, but in Possession he seems like the one possessed. It's as if the Norton Anthology Of Victorian Poetry bonked him on the head and took over

his personality.'

FearDotCom

Four people are found brutally murdered. Web site feardot.com is what links their deaths - all of them logged on 48 hours before they died. Stephen Dorff (Deuces Wild) plays detective Mike Reilly who teams up with Terry Houston (Natascha McElhone, The Truman Show) from the Department of Health in New York City to uncover the facts.

Michael Rechtshaffen

The Hollywood Reporter

'Nonsensical, shamelessly derivative, leeringly exploitative and fundamentally boring all at the same time, FearDotCom is the latest in a wave of grotesquely inept horror pictures that is giving the genre a horrific name.'

Lou Lumenick

The New York Post

'At a preview screening of FearDotCom, bored audience members left in droves until the last half hour - when the film suddenly abandoned all pretence of coherence and seriousness and became unintentionally quite funny.'

Luke Y Thompson

The New Times Los Angeles

'If you're looking for a horror film to revitalise the genre, keep looking. If you're looking for a horror movie with believable characters ? you're gonna have to keep looking. But if loud noises, relentless strobe lights, digital hallucinations and mutilated corpses make you jump, welcome to FearDotCom.'



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