Fresh
Moore, in a nearly unplayable role, is amazingly vivid and touching; this is a heartbreaking portrait of a woman in full, panicked retreat from life.
Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
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Safe
Overview
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
You'd have to be cranky or blind to deny Haynes' artistry and vision. There's a dark power, a tremor that runs through the movie like the rumble of a secret dread.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
This creepy art movie will stay with you.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
In a summer of heavyweight action movies and flyweight romantic comedies, I don't think you'll find a more provocative little number than Safe, which creeps under your skin like a rash.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
The audaciousness that marked Todd Haynes' earlier work has been supplanted by self-important preachiness.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
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