New Rose Hotel

R

Released Oct 14, 1998

1h 32m

Drama

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24%

17 Reviews

Tomatometer

38%

1,000+ Ratings

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A corporate raider (Christopher Walken) and his henchman (Willem Dafoe) use a chanteuse (Asia Argento) to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

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Ravenswood R

Fragmented and shoddily put together jumble of a story with an interesting and amusing performance by Christopher Walken. The story is very poorly explicated. It has a mood you can never quite put your finger on, kind of sardonic but also dreary. There really does not seem to be any story worth telling. The end is so annoying and confusing that if you make it that long you will regret not switching it off. Everything this has to offer is over in the first 30 minutes, the rest is repetitive and redundant, with actual scenes repeated several times for no apparent reason.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/01/24

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Barasona

Adaptation of the homonymous story written by William Gibson manages to faithfully capture a monologue by the protagonist in a somewhat more traditional film style. The performances are impeccable and the setting is very well achieved.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/24/23

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Audience Member

Abel Faraera exploits every woman he films, he just cant help it and walkin and dafeo join in. bad script, lame story and horrible cinematography

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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kevin c

I dug this movie, it feels almost like a play the way it's filmed and how claustrophobic it feels at times. Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe hatch a plan to steal information from a Japanese businessman by hiring a beautiful woman played to perfection by Asia Argento to seduce him even though Dafoe's character is falling for her, as is this viewer. Directed by Abel Ferrara.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

If Longo's earlier adaptation leans heavily into the "cyber" component of Gibson's dystopic universe, Ferrara's is more in line with a "punk" sensibility, a subversively lo-fi (or LoTek) aesthetic that is more mood than motivation, all despairing alienation and nebulous fragmentation that is dreamy both in its existentialist yearning and soporific dawdling.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

Only a partial star just for having two great lead actors

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Abel Ferrara

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Christopher Walken

Fox

Willem Dafoe

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Asia Argento

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Nick Schager

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Masterfully constructed and yet eventually rather wearisome.

Rated: B

Jun 22, 2006

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Kevin Thomas

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Rated: 2.5/5

Feb 14, 2001

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Rated: 1.5/5

Jan 1, 2000

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James Slaymaker

Vague Visages

Like Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Ferrara collapses history within his iconographic mise-en-scene, stressing the burden of tradition his characters have placed on their shoulders.

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Cole Smithey

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Uh, no.

Rated: 1/5

Jun 1, 2007

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Rated: 2/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Synopsis

A corporate raider (Christopher Walken) and his henchman (Willem Dafoe) use a chanteuse (Asia Argento) to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Producer: Alessandro Camon, Jay Cannold, Gregory G. Woertz
Screenwriter: William Gibson, Abel Ferrara, Christ Zois
Production Co: Edward R. Pressman Film Corp.
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 14, 1998, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 10, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.4K
Runtime: 1h 32m

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