NY Times Review: "The Shape Of Things"
(By: A.O. Scott, The New York Times)
"Notorious misanthrope Neil LaBute adapts his own play for the big screen, a kind of curdled parable of sexual cruelty, a gender-reversed variation of LaBute's most searing film "In The Company of Men."
Rachel Weisz stars as a college student and aspiring artist >who uses the timid and insecure Paul Rudd as an experiment in man-molding. There is very little here that's recognizably human.
Elvis Costello, whose songs provide relief from LaBute's dialogue, has managed more corrosive insight in a single verse than LaBute has in entire plays, and more compassion as well. Verdict: C-
(Submitted by Kelly Hale)