Succeeds as an exercise for the excellent Nichols, even when its theatrical origins fight with the medium of film.
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12/08/04
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Closer (2004)
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Reviews Counted:188
Fresh:130
Rotten:58
Average Rating:6.7/10
Theatrical Release:Dec 3, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $33,987,757
Synopsis: Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one... [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen
Director: Mike Nichols
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Reviews for Closer
Beautiful people’s selfish sex lives, tears, and glossy infidelity. Owen and Law weep for Roberts.
11/29/04
Bad Pinter meets bad Updike, dancing to the rat-a-tat rhythms of an ER episode.
12/09/04
Top CriticThe film is pitched with the same pace and distance as the play; characters chatter on in neat, clipped little sound bites that sound very little like real conversation.
12/03/04
[A] chilly, caustic, foul-mouthed anatomy of modern romance.
12/11/04
Top CriticHeavy on a dialogue that cycles through clever, humorous, tedious, "Closer" examines love & commitment (& infractions thereof). Lacks emotive connection with audience.
12/01/04
How you relate to the movie probably will be a function of where you are in your own love life. Either you will find it to be wound-salving honesty or a pointlessly pessimistic waste of your time.
12/02/04
Sexy, deliciously perverse and oozing with immorality.
12/03/04
An ingeniously structured screenplay and scorching performances exemplify Mike Nichols’ interpretation of Patrick Marber’s exquisite play, “Closer.”**
12/06/04
'Closer' apparently exists as a movie because the director admired the play, not because the play benefits from being 'opened up' for filming...
12/03/04
An excellent series of scenes that don't quite make a movie.
12/02/04
Not to be missed.
12/11/04
Top CriticIntimacy both attracts and repels in this smart, modern and biting treatment of love's endless merry-go-round.
01/15/05
...saved from its implausible emotional overtures by its unvarnished emotional minutiae.
12/01/04
Closer gets about as close as it gets to showing how love sometimes makes people do awful things to each other.
12/02/04
Its life expectancy will rest on its stellar cast, Marber's dialogue and Nichol's intelligent guidance. It sure won't be for the emotional content or its grasp on morality.
12/10/04
Closer plays a little like a sad jazzy score - fascinating to experience even after realizing it's going to break your heart.
12/03/04
Surely the most divisive film about modern relations since Eyes Wide Shut.
03/24/05
Closer is a scorching examination of the shadow side of love and the use of language as a weapon of mass destruction in intimate relationships.
12/01/04
Se trata, en todo caso, de una exploración madura e inteligente del amor, la infidelidad y los misterios del relacionamiento humano (...)
01/23/05
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