Closer Reviews
Common Sense Media
Searing story of betrayal isn't for kids.
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| Original Score: 3/5
AskMen.com
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.
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| Original Score: 74/100
Cinema Crazed
Nichols ... simply stuns with a beautiful production, excellent script, unconventional and rather hateful story, and excellent acting all around.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
ColeSmithey.com
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.
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| Original Score: B-
eFilmCritic.com
It's only as good as its cast. Fortunately, it's a good cast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Blogcritics.org
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.
Movies for the Masses
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Top CriticOwen and Portman give excellent, committed performances, leaving Law and Roberts in the shade.
Empire Magazine
| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
Fortunately for Nichols, Marber's script is smart enough and often uncomfortably amusing, and the talent he's arrayed all live up to their marquee status. Even Roberts.
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| Original Score: 4/5
AV Club
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.
Cinema Sight
"Closer" isn't the kind of film just any audience would enjoy. The film features complex sexual and relationship themes that might leave some viewers cold.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
The dialogue is often lacerating, as lovers wield words like lashes, striking out to get what they desire.
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| Original Score: B
Freeze Dried Movies
Since we only glimpse these personalities when they are threatened, the fun of the movie becomes trying to guess which behavior is genuine, and which is a means of defense.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Creative Loafing
Surely the most divisive film about modern relations since Eyes Wide Shut.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
MTV
Portman, with her big, eager eyes and knowing, seductive smile ... lifts the movie up to another level.
Vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Independent
Marber's script is wonderfully thorough in its exploration of the permutations of desire and betrayal, and the cast serve it brilliantly.
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| Original Score: 4/5
