It proposes that you can make an extraordinarily satisfying comedy without writing a joke. Subtly played and elegantly directed, this is an Adults Only movie in the best sense of the term.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
Patrice Leconte has long ago mastered a Gallic specialty: the knack of making impeccably polished, graceful films with an unpretentious ease while allowing them to emerge seeming fresh and spontaneous. Leconte's latest film to reach the U.S. reveals him to be at his slyest best.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
We find we cannot take anything for face value in this story, that the motives of this woman and her husband are so deeply masked that even at the end of the film we are still uncertain about exactly what to believe, and why.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
This is the kind of sophisticated and pleasurable movie you dream of seeing from France.Read Full Review »
80
The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Establishes its mood of playful erotic suspense in the first 10 minutes and sustains its cat-and-mouse game between therapist and patient through variations that are by turns amusing, titillating and mildly scary.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Light and droll, but with an undercurrent of moody suspense.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
It's at once too restrained and too perversely funny to have emanated from the play-it-big-but-play-it-safe sensibilities of Hollywood, U.S.A.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
There's a thin line between the subtle and the dramatically inert, and Intimate Strangers pitches a tent on it.Read Full Review »
50
Village Voice: David Ng
A bland chamber drama for those who like their French cinema tame, talky, and just a little titillating.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Charles Taylor
To borrow a phrase from Pauline Kael, Intimate Strangers suggests bits of Alfred Hitchcock and bits of Woody Allen. But the wrong bits.Read Full Review »
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