To Die For

The price of fame is murder -- or at least it is in the mind of one woman in New Hampshire. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has spent most of her life wanting to be famous; she's attractive, speaks well, and imagines herself to be intelligent ("imagines" is the key word here), so she has set her ...more

Tart, entertaining, and just off-center enough to please longtime fans of director Gus Van Sant, To Die For is that rarest of creatures: a subtle satire that actually works. Quasi-documentary footage, out-of-sequence chronology, plenty of foreshadowing, and artful little flourishes keep the film from devolving into shrillness or camp, like the similarly themed Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. Nicole Kidman deserves every bit of credibility she earned ...more