A better name for this movie would be Four Beautiful People Cheating on Each Other.
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12/03/04
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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
Sex, lies and betrayal form a high-stakes game of love in Mike Nichols' Closer.
12/10/04
The kind of drama that some will find provocative and groundbreaking; I just find it mean spirited.
12/02/04
It's a rare film in that it thoroughly involves the audience without presenting a likable character.
12/02/04
Next to Closer, most on-screen relationships seem too neat and polite, with tears shed only for effect, and feelings bruised but never really damaged.
12/02/04
Top CriticNone of the characters is particularly likable, and they all do and say terrible things to one another, but they never devolve into anything less than human.
12/15/04
This is director Mike Nichols' best theatrical effort in years.
12/02/04
Top Critic'...watching four incredibly sexy actors withhold their mojo to play this emptiness is neither enlightening nor engaging.'
01/05/05
Sexy, deliciously perverse and oozing with immorality.
12/03/04
A relentlessly nasty film adapted from Patrick Marber’s play that manages to win you over despite the fact that all four of its characters are clearly marked 'damaged goods.'
12/11/04
Closer, a lacerating four-character suite on the elusiveness of love and intimacy, finds Nichols returning to his roots without having lost his sardonic edge.
09/26/05
Closer is meant to be a commentary on relationships in the 21st century, but let's not read too much into it. By the end of the film, it already has read too much into itself.
01/24/05
All the performances are strong, with Portman especially fearless and Owen simply fearsome as a man driven by his base instincts.
02/15/05
Four beautiful, despicable characters find everything but love in this borderline sadistic battle of words from Mike Nichols.
12/27/07
"Closer" is a raw and stimulating film filled with excellent performances and an exotic script!
01/25/05
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.
05/28/07
At 73, Nichols is in peak form.
12/03/04
Top CriticNichols tarts up the staginess with a breezily achronological narrative and motifs involving aquariums and smoking, but Closer is too closed for discomfort.
12/11/04
A bleakly Darwinist view of the mating game....The Hollywood cast upgrades make us even less sympathetic to Marber's nasty quartet.
12/10/04
What is so alluring about Patrick Marber's script, adapted from his award-winning stage play, is that it mimics the way we remember love affairs.
12/03/04
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