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"I'm not a thief, Alice," she says, but she is. | Rating: 3.5/4

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Jude Law and Julia Roberts have a little less to do than Natalie Portman and Clive Owen, yet they compel nonetheless through the charisma we've come to expect from them, as well as the depth, emotion and layers that we would expect and do, in fact, get from Law and Roberts, particularly Law.

Closer, scripted by Patrick Marber from his own play, could just have been a smart scrambling of these two earlier films.

The heart isn't a fist any more than the hand is a foot, and anyway there's no fist so tight that doesn't unfold into an open hand sometime. 2:13

The movie is like a comedy someone dipped in a solvent.

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

R (for sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality and language)

However, Roberts gives an ineffective performance, especially for a actor of her repute, much like that of Law.

Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Classic Film Catch-Up: Hollywood’s Most Unnerving Descents Into Madness I would have wished the movie more erotically intense, perhaps a little more dark and disturbing, the lines read with more conviction, or maybe just better lines altogether and less I-love-you's thrown around way too casually for my liking. They fit right in at the opening of Anna's photography exhibition.

Fascinated by the game of love, seduced by seduction itself, they play at sincere, truthful relationships which are lies in almost every respect, except their desire to sleep with each other. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else Anna, the photographer, is accurately sniffed out by Alice as a possible lover of Dan.

Didn't they meet three or four scenes ago?

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. The characters toss around the l-word a great deal, but there is no evidence that any of them even see each other, much less know or love each other. Actually, truth causes them more trouble than it saves, because they seem compelled to be most truthful about the ways in which they have been untruthful.

Oh yeah, Mike Nichols has never done a film like that before, so I guess you could say that he's "graduated" to deeper rom-drams. "Without it, we're animals." All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer Film. Drama

March 19, 2009 It is these people who are bringing spite into it. | Well, I guess the the play of this film was major, because I don't really keep up with plays too much, as opposed to Mike Nichols, who just plain adores stage plays, just as much as he loves romantic drama films of this type, so he better be careful, or else he'll end up destroying his relationship with plays to be with romantic drama films about love triangles... or however many angles these film's sometimes slightly hard-to-keep-up-with romances have.

I may not be familiar with the play upon which this film is based, but I know enough about the theatre to tell that this film is undoubtedly faithful in many ways to the very dialogue-driven drama that I'd imagine the source material very much is, which is good and all, though perhaps this film gets to be faithful to a fault. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Regal It delivers an intimate film that actually achieves depths rarely seen on screen.

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