Closer (2004)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 202
Fresh: 138 | Rotten: 64
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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 12
No consensus yet.
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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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Julia Roberts
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Natalie Portman
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Clive Owen
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Colin Stinton
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Nick Hobbs
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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.
Top CriticOwen and Portman give excellent, committed performances, leaving Law and Roberts in the shade.
Vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
If it makes you uncomfortable, or leaves you disturbed, it has only done its job.
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.
Impeccably acted and directed -- but quite icy.
Searing story of betrayal isn't for kids.
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.
With a better script, Closer could have been compelling romantic drama; instead, it's little more than clichéd nonsense.
Nichols ... simply stuns with a beautiful production, excellent script, unconventional and rather hateful story, and excellent acting all around.
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.
Four beautiful, despicable characters find everything but love in this borderline sadistic battle of words from Mike Nichols.
It's only as good as its cast. Fortunately, it's a good cast.
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.
Extras are not this disc's strong suit, as the main special feature here is a music video.
I appreciate the daring nature of the screenplay, but in the end it was just another movie that didn't entertain me.
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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.
Audience Reviews for Closer
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- Larry: She has the moronic of beauty of youth, but she's sly.
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- Alice: I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
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- Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
- Alice: Why?
- Dan: Because I'm addicted to it. Because without it, we're animals. Trust me.
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- 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.
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- Alice: I am the one who leaves.
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- Larry: What does your cum taste like?
- Alice: Heaven.
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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.