When twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives, hard-driving narcissism is a given, but what a world we’d live in if Argento’s Hollywood counterparts—say, Sarah Michelle Gellar, or even Christina Ricci—had this much imagination and nerve. Few of them, at any rate, have Argento’s reserves of lonesome passion and unspigoted woe.
Michael Atkinson
August 6, 2002