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Closer (2004)
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Reviews Counted:197
Fresh:136
Rotten:61
Average Rating:6.6/10
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
In spite of the teasing promise of its title, Mike Nichols's deft drama does everything it can to push you away.
12/02/04
Top CriticAn extremely well-executed entertainment exclusively for grown-ups.
12/10/04
Top CriticThe unrelenting seediness and, most crucially, the lack of a character which the audience is willing to side with takes a toll.
12/03/04
[The characters'] allegiances shift so relentlessly and drastically that we are unable to tune into who they are.
12/02/04
Owen alone, in Closer, rises to the challenge.
12/07/04
Like its misbegotten quartet of manipulative lovers, the movie offers only intermittent satisfaction.
12/03/04
A few rousing moments do not an overall cogent narrative make.
12/03/04
... you're so conscious of the vehicle's artifice, so aware of actors performing, that it's difficult to react to them as living, breathing characters ...
12/03/04
like watching a terrible train wreck in excruciatingly slow motion
12/01/04
Devolves into a series of opposite-gender matches, increasingly unsubtle.
12/03/04
As Closer unspooled I found myself wishing that Nichols had done something a little more unsparing.Then I remembered that he already has: Carnal Knowlege.
12/13/04
It was basically a porno with no nudity.
12/08/04
Four people marry, divorce, hop into one another's beds, talk dirty, and make each other miserable... Why did anyone think this would make for an entertaining movie?
12/20/04
Despite formidable performances by Roberts, Law, Portman, and Owen, Mike Nichols's Closer is weakened by both its source material and odd directorial decision making.
12/13/04
More than three decades after the frank sex-talk of Nichols's early triumphs, Closer offers only a cozy and barely fashionable cynicism.
11/30/04
Top CriticOffers a cynical and pessimistic look at the ongoing Sexual Revolution.
04/05/05
Sure, there's a rubber-necky attraction to watching these good-looking, half-baked creations living anguished, photogenic lifestyles. But it's unclear if we're supposed to feel engaged.
12/02/04
Top CriticWhile the technique significantly streamlines things, it also strips away whatever makes us sympathize with or better understand the characters, leaving love and sex as unintelligible as ever.
12/02/04
With its pretty close-ups of pretty actors and pretty slow-motion shots set to pretty songs, Closer is scarcely complex—it’s just, well, precious.
07/07/04
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