Searing story of betrayal isn't for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 74/100 | Jun 7, 2010

Like dramas by Pinter and others, what seems trenchant and perfectly pitched in the theater can come off as arch even when skillfully transferred to film.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2009

Owen and Portman give excellent, committed performances, leaving Law and Roberts in the shade.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

Thanks to Marber's whiplash dialogue, the cast suffer with an eloquence that's uncommon in the movies, but that's about as far as it goes.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2006

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.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

Competently acted, theatrically staged.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 3, 2005

Marber's script is wonderfully thorough in its exploration of the permutations of desire and betrayal, and the cast serve it brilliantly.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2005

Vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 7, 2005

All the performances are strong, with Portman especially fearless and Owen simply fearsome as a man driven by his base instincts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2005

Full of chance meetings, instant attraction and casual betrayals, the movie is setup like a group of individual snapshots, brief glimpses inside the lives of people trying to find that one love connection grounding them for the rest of their lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 11, 2004

If it makes you uncomfortable, or leaves you disturbed, it has only done its job.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 11, 2004

Impeccably acted and directed -- but quite icy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 11, 2004

[A] chilly, caustic, foul-mouthed anatomy of modern romance.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2004

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.'

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2004

Nichols is back, his instincts for intimacy as cutting as ever...

Full Review | Dec 11, 2004

It does shock, I should say, in the way of men and women doing their psychological worst and most ruthless to push away those they have previously pulled close.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Dec 11, 2004

There's a creepy fascination in the way these four characters stage their affairs while occupying impeccable lifestyles.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 11, 2004

An extremely well-executed entertainment exclusively for grown-ups.

Full Review | Dec 10, 2004

Despite four very strong performances, Closer is hard emotional work to sit through.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 9, 2004