Cruel Intentions

One of my favorite movie in 1999 is Cruel Intentions, a movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair that was a real hit at that time.....had a twisted ending that we never expect..... ... Full Review

Sarah Michelle Gellar is effective and does the best she can, although she is totally unbelievable. Pity, because Phillippe has great screen presence, and deserves both better material and direction. ... Full Review

Overall Cruel Intentions is entertaining, but only lightly so. When you're talking about guilty pleasures Cruel Intentions has to be somewhere near the top of your list. ... Full Review

Sexual shenanigans, head games, and blackmail are the whole point of this film, and, frankly, if the actors were older and more innately sophisticated, we might actually believe it. But the sexual games start right off the bat, as we see a psychiatrist (Swoosie Kurtz) treating Sebastian by handing him a copy of her parenting book, and it turns out he's already bedded her young-adult daughter as a way of undercutting the good doctor's arrogance. ... Full Review

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Selma Blair, perhaps because she played the only character plausibly adolescent, provides most of the film's entertainment.....Kumble's dialogue is profoundly weird..... ... Full Review

Laramie Movie Scope:Cruel Intentions A guilty pleasure soap opera with teenage lust The story works better when it sticks to comedy. The kissing scene between Gellar and Blair is one of those guilty pleasures I was talking about. ... Full Review

I was very surprised at how much I liked the Cruel Intentions DVD. Instead I was delighted to find that Cruel Intentions is a slick and sophisticated modernization of the great classic story You can't talk about this movie without mentioning the incredible chemistry between Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon (who ended up getting married after making this film). ... Full Review

A guilty pleasure in some areas, Cruel Intentions succeeds in its attempts at light sleaze. Her equally vicious cousin, Sebastian (Phillippe), shares her mean streak and spends most of his time bedding chaste debutantes only to humiliate them later (not to mention logging such adventures in his prized journal). ... Full Review

The sleek look of the black comedy ``Cruel Intentions'' reflects the hard surface of its characters. Cruel Intentions'' is a comedy of revenge and blackmail that ultimately pulls the rug out from beneath its smug, well-appointed characters. ... Full Review