Dangerous Liaisons Reviews
This incisive study of sex as an arena for manipulative power games takes too long to catch fire and suffers from a deficient central performance.
The creepy plot still holds a certain fascination.
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| Original Score: 2/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emotional cruelty through sexual manipulation is the rule of the game of this smooth transfer of Christopher Hampton's witty play, with an all-American cast, headed by Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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| Original Score: B+
Time Out
Top CriticA sombre, manipulative affair in which the dà (C)cor is never allowed to usurp our interest.
Kalamazoo Gazette
Splendid... full of deliciously devious characters
| Original Score: 5/5
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
For a tragedy that carries a strong emotional kick, it's wickedly fun.
| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema em Cena
Close, Malkovich e Pfeiffer aproveitam ao máximo seus fascinantes personagens e os diálogos afiados do roteiro de Hampton, mas o filme é um pouco mais frio do que deveria.
| Original Score: 4/5
Nick's Flick Picks
Wicked and well-appointed, this is a deliriously sinful costume a drama.
| Original Score: 4/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Its vernacular style allows the film to connect easily with present-day morals, sexual politics, and thirst for power.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Netflix
Stephen Frears' direction is superb -- the design and lighting evoke simultaneous worlds of privilege and squalor, and while the nature of day-to-day life in 18th century France becomes readily apparent, it never becomes distracting.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Matinee Magazine
Perhaps the juciest adaptation of the story that one could hope for.
| Original Score: 4/5
eFilmCritic.com
It's like Masterpiece Theater ... but not boring!
| Original Score: 5/5
Spirituality and Practice
A scintillating study of sexual politics that skillfully presents the cruel ways two malevolent protagonists manipulate their targets and deceive others around them.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
If the very most basic plot is a little too much like some of those incompetently made French sex-romps that show up on late-night cable, everything else is first-rate in this production.
Filmcritic.com
Probably the best adaptation of the celebrated novel you can find.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Tantalizingly wicked -- watching it makes the color rise to your cheeks.
