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Release Date: Oct 11, 1998; Rated: PG-13; Genres: Crime, Suspense; With: Patrick Dempsey and Ben Kingsley; Distributor: Trimark Home Video
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Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it
Sweaty self-abasement is de rigueur for any adaptation of this philosophical classic, and, as the fleetingly homicidal Raskolnikov, Dempsey dishes it out — mercifully — in tablespoons, not quarts. Julie Delpy's virtuous streetwalker and Kingsley's serene inspector are also rendered with masterful understatement, especially for a TV movie. But the guilt-induced, Afterschool Special fantasies (used in lieu of Dostoyevsky's fever-dream dialectics) are simply beyond redemption. B-
Posted Mar 17, 2000
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