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Closer (2004)

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73

Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 12

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
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Movie Info

Patrick Marber's acclaimed stage drama about the romantic interactions of four people has been given a reverent screen adaptation by director and producer Mike Nichols. Dan (Jude Law) is a writer in London who wants to finish a novel, but in the meantime supports himself by writing obituaries. One day he chances upon Alice (Natalie Portman), a beautiful young American expatriate, working as a stripper, when he sees her get hit by a car. Alice immediately falls for Dan, and gives him her love

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Patrick Marber

Mar 29, 2005

$34.0M

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All Critics (205) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (141) | Rotten (69) | DVD (36)

Like dramas by Pinter and others, what seems trenchant and perfectly pitched in the theater can come off as arch even when skillfully transferred to film.

March 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety
Variety
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Owen and Portman give excellent, committed performances, leaving Law and Roberts in the shade.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.

March 7, 2005
Rolling Stone
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If it makes you uncomfortable, or leaves you disturbed, it has only done its job.

December 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
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Closer has lots to offer: smart performances, archly funny dialogue and a feeling for the way a group of strangers can become so familiar that they're apt to rip one another to shreds.

December 11, 2004
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Impeccably acted and directed -- but quite icy.

December 11, 2004
New York Post
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Searing story of betrayal isn't for kids.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment (1)
Common Sense Media

Closer is no joke and it's got the brave, mature performances of an all-star cast to prove it. It's a movie in which characters feel each other up with their hands and knock each other down with words.

June 7, 2010 Full Review Source: AskMen.com

With a better script, Closer could have been compelling romantic drama; instead, it's little more than clichéd nonsense.

September 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Film and Felt
Film and Felt

Nichols ... simply stuns with a beautiful production, excellent script, unconventional and rather hateful story, and excellent acting all around.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

Mike Nichols teases up a similar level of emotional dysfunction to "Carnal Knowledge" with a filmic rendition of Patrick Marber's stage play about sexual one-ups-man-ship.

April 18, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

Four beautiful, despicable characters find everything but love in this borderline sadistic battle of words from Mike Nichols.

December 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound
Big Picture Big Sound

It's only as good as its cast. Fortunately, it's a good cast.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Marber looks at farcical giddiness with a hard-won sobriety.... Closer is a voguish farce that, rather than making you wish you were like the characters, makes you wish that you hadn't been.

May 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Blogcritics.org
Blogcritics.org

Extras are not this disc's strong suit, as the main special feature here is a music video.

May 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

I appreciate the daring nature of the screenplay, but in the end it was just another movie that didn't entertain me.

April 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

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August 31, 2006 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses
Movies for the Masses

Thanks to Marber's whiplash dialogue, the cast suffer with an eloquence that's uncommon in the movies, but that's about as far as it goes.

January 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald

Audience Reviews for Closer

Hello stranger. Depressingly adult anti-romance.

Compare with the the similarly themed and entertaining Carnal Knowledge for a look at what I think is director Mike Nichols losing a step or two - actually impressively little for 33 years down the road.
May 20, 2007
brooklynspo

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Closer is a like a bad episode of bad tv-drama. This kind of dialogue from actors like Julia Roberts and specially from Natalie Portman just sounds completely out of place. It is like hair-models are forced to read script written by drunken David Mamet. Actually visually Closer is more like hair-wax commercial than film. What a waste of time.
January 7, 2012
emilkakko

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    1. Larry: She has the moronic of beauty of youth, but she's sly.
    – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
    1. Alice: I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
    – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
    1. Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
    2. Alice: Why?
    3. Dan: Because I'm addicted to it. Because without it, we're animals. Trust me.
    – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
    1. Alice: Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.
    – Submitted by Samira O (5 months ago)
    1. Alice: I am the one who leaves.
    – Submitted by Thiago N (6 months ago)
    1. Larry: What does your cum taste like?
    2. Alice: Heaven.
    – Submitted by Kristen R (7 months ago)

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