Single White Female (1992) (2024)

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• Review by gal pacino ★★★ 22

  would you rather

  A. single white female your roommate
  B. gone girl your husband
  C. black swan yourself
  D. kill bill

• Review by MJsays ★★★½ 3

  You know your obsession has reached frightening new levels when you’re willing to get a bowl-cut hairdo to look like someone.

• Review by Liz ★★★½ 2

  Chekov's screwdriver and Chekov's window cover and Chekov's heel and Chekov's puppy and Chekov's silver lamé raincoat and Chekov's creepy client and

• Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 5

  It doesn’t have my beloved “reading old microfiche at the library” scene but it DOES have another classic, the “looking through the box of old photos and newspaper clippings to discover someone’s twisted backstory” scene

• Review by nathaxnne [hiatus <3] ★★★★★ 9

  Blue shadows, immersive and shallow, orange and dusty rose afterglow, unstructured blazers, kimono sleepwear, the upper floors, the cornices and balustrades and decorative columns, the cardigans and the duplicates, the databases and the sexual harassment, the cut-outs and the hidden documents, the threatening phone calls and the bas-relief lions. How many roommates have you had? What references can you provide? A central stairwell which descends all the way to hell, then keeps going down.

• Review by nora ★★½

  uhh pretty sure this is landlord propaganda about what will happen to you if you bring a new occupant into your apartment who is not on your lease

• Review by Sean Fennessey ★★★ 1

  This and Pacific Heights feature the two greatest “I’m a sociopath and all the evidence of my family trauma can be found in a box I’ve kept featuring newspaper clippings that detail why I’m nuts” sequences. An effective expository device that was satirized so well by Jordan Peele with Allison Williams’ Polaroid Box ‘O Boyfriends in Get Out. This is fun, slick trash with two terrific lead performances and enough blue light to power a precinct.

• Review by Cameron Bertram ★★★

  I wish my building had air vents that only allow me to hear my neighbours when they're having sex or saying things vital to the plot of my life.

• Review by Matt Erspamer ★★★ 1

  and they were roommates

• Review by Sally Jane Black 7

  The pain of loneliness can drive us to many extremes. The agony of do I love her or do I want to be her is really just "I wish I were lovable" wrapped up in the melange of sexuality and gender and romance and isolation that is created by a world that tells us success is digital individualism. Before its time in some ways, of its time in so many others, and outside reality for the most part.

  (In the end, the answer is to rely on your gay friends to save you.)

• Review by Brennan Klein ★★★½

  You know Jennifer Jason Leigh is crazy because she likes Bridget Fonda's haircut.

• Review by matt lynch ★★★

  Bridget Fonda's character isn't such a great roommate either.

  Discussed on Episode 8 of The Suspense is Killing Us.