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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

RARE PHOTOS: Sanctuary creeps are less interesting than they think they are | Rare Historical Photos

A dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) resists the efforts of her client (Christopher Abbott) to end their arrangement in “Sanctuary.” (Neon)

It’s just the three of us in a luxury hotel suite for virtually the entirety of Zachary Wigon’s slick and cynical, empty-calorie psychological sexual drama “Sanctuary.” Let’s see, there’s Margaret Qualley’s Rebecca, Christopher Abbott’s Hal — and the viewer.

About halfway through the night, this particular viewer was thinking about calling a Lyft and leaving these two shallow, petty and immature narcissists to themselves. Although “Sanctuary” is stylish and initially intriguing, it’s eventually a real chore to spend an entire feature-length film (even with a relatively brief running time of 96 minutes) with two boors who are also kind of boring, despite all the histrionics and fang-baring and manipulative mind games. They find themselves and each other a lot more interesting than we do.

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