Closer (2004)
69 %
Reviews Counted: 187 Fresh: 129 Rotten:58 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
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 person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love? Directed by Mike Nichols... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen
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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
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09/26/05
The film’s central theme is that intimacy is a lie, that the more entrenched a couple becomes in a relationship, the more they are divided by secrecy and deception.
09/16/05
...directors like Peter Greenaway and Mike Leigh have examined sexual politics and cruelty with results that are significantly more profound.
07/25/05
"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.
04/17/05
The dialogue is often lacerating, as lovers wield words like lashes, striking out to get what they desire.
04/13/05
Offers a cynical and pessimistic look at the ongoing Sexual Revolution.
04/05/05
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.
04/01/05
Surely the most divisive film about modern relations since Eyes Wide Shut.
03/24/05
Portman, with her big, eager eyes and knowing, seductive smile ... lifts the movie up to another level.
03/14/05
Vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
03/07/05
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