This is a spectacularly well-made thriller. It is an odd thing, really -- the movie is sexy and at the same time a warning about the costs of sex.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Janet Maslin
Mr. Lyne takes a brilliantly manipulative approach to what might have been a humdrum subject and shapes a soap opera of exceptional power.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Howe
Fatal Attraction rings the changes on your atavistic emotions. Walking out of the theater, you might have a sudden desire to club a woolly mammoth and hide your family in a dark cave -- away from people like Glenn Close.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Well-made fictions like Fatal Attraction prosper because they seem more persuasive than fact.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Michael Wilmington
Passion, obsession, mad love, the violent clash of insider and outsider-all these themes, plus the performances, are rich enough to carry us past that wounded climax, if not to carry the movie past the fatal attractions of the big box-office cliche. [18 Sep 1987, p.1]Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Fatal Attraction is a spellbinding psychological thriller that could have been a great movie if the filmmakers had not thrown character and plausibility to the winds in the last minutes to give us their version of a grown-up "Friday the 13th."Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Michael Blowen
Adrian Lyne pulls out more manipulative nonsense than Machiavelli ever thought of. Lyne stops at nothing to provoke artificial sentimental feelings from the audience. Like the movie itself, the audience's reaction is only skin deep. [18 Sep 1987, p.58]Read Full Review »
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