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[The film brings] horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives.
The screws are tightened expertly in this suspenseful meller about a flipped-out femme who makes life hell for the married man who scorns her.
While billed as a romance and a thriller, the film strictly qualifies as neither, appealing to our prurience, guilt, hatred, and dread.
Years hence, it will be possible to pinpoint the exact moment that produced Fatal Attraction, Adrian Lyne's new romantic thriller, and the precise circumstances that made it a hit.
Close should take pride in her performance. She should also expect a depressing avalanche of scripts requiring a she-wacko.
Fatal Attraction has an inescapable pull to it; it's suffocatingly exciting.
A crowd-pleasing sensationalist jejune romantic thriller.
Adultery-obsession thriller isn't for kids (or bunnies).
a pure film for adults, and it manages to walk a tightrope between reprehensible behavior and business as usual
has the makings of a serious examination of adult relationships and interactions under duress, only to end as a seriocomic slasher film dictated by popular taste.
An exceptionally well-written, well-acted and well-directed thriller that extends beyond the boundaries mainstream films typically set.
Director Adrian Lyne and screenwriter James Dearden create a commendable sense of rising danger, and before long we feel the suspense becoming tangible. (Blu-ray Edition)
...remains a reasonably efficient thriller, building tension slowly and releasing it, if too melodramatically, at least excitingly.
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Big, fat, juicy suspense.
Close attention reveals plenty of flaws but for sheer heart-in-the-mouth excitement it remains a triumph.
This story of an extramarital fling that turns into a nightmare begins as a well-crafted psychological thriller but degenerates into a misogynistic thrill-fest in its closing moments.
An extremely well-directed and acted (particularly by Glenn Close as the career woman) thriller that also functions as cautionary tale about sex in the swinging 1970s and parable of AIDS in the 1980s.
A predictable dog's dinner of Pavlovian thriller clichés, this will appeal strongly to those who think women should be kept on a short lead.
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