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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
If you understand who the characters are and what they're supposed to represent, the performances are right on the money.
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70
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Wang is working on your mind, not your body.
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63
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
Provoke us into examining whether the onus is on the man for turning it into a commercial proposition or the woman for agreeing to his offer.
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58
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Too arty by half.
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50
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Where Mike Figgis' film, with Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue, bore deeply and darkly into emotional territory, The Center of the World turns out to be just as fake as its setting.
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50
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's only when he (Wang) slows down and allows the characters to connect emotionally that his movie's unflinching honesty takes your breath away.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
One pities poor Molly Parker, a fine actress who was somehow persuaded to disrobe for this degrading and dispiriting Wayne Wang film.
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20
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
In a culture apparently defined by lap dancing, ersatz architectural sublimity and the virtual contact of cyberspace, how do we know what is real? The Center of the World, for example, is as phony as can be.
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20
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
All this sadness becomes so depressing to watch, testing the limits of the patience of even a viewer prepared to take Wang's underlying concerns seriously.
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20
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Drowning in uncharted waters and way off-center in any world.
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