Is the movie about marriage, or sex, or murder, or the murder plot, or what? I'm not sure. It deals all those cards, and fate shuffles them. You may not like it if you insist on counting the deck after the game and coming up with 52. But if you get 51 and are amused by how the missing card was made to vanish, this may be a movie to your liking.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Chris Cooper, the consummate professional, has no trouble making viewers feel sympathy for a potential killer.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Married Life congratulates its audience on a sophisticated, humorous complicity in the obvious immorality of Harry's murder plans, as well as in Richard's own ungentlemanly designs on his pal's gorgeous girl. Every adult, the movie suggests, has got a secret.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
An engaging romance noir, a sort of updated "The Postman Always Rings Twice" that packs its surprises into four characters, none of them predictable.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
This is the sort of gallows humor that Hitchcock relished drawing out in cruelly amusing cat-and-mouse games, not to be taken too seriously. The same is true of Married Life. The murder plot is not to be taken any more literally than the lethal games of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
Married Life is a tony, well-upholstered vehicle that glides smoothly toward its destination—but despite an unnecessary and overly sentimental coda, that destination isn't necessarily where you thought you were going all along.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
None of these elements quite come together, and while the clothes and props look authentic, the acting doesn't.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Albeit slumming with style and a fairly sharp scalpel. Married Life delights in peeling back the bright postwar social veneer to expose the characters' hidden agendas, and if this is a mystery movie, the mystery is other people.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
The appeal of the cast, the witty dialogue, the gorgeous costumes and production design, and the refreshingly grown-up subject matter can't be discounted. Maybe it is about compromise, after all, because though Married Life has its moments, it's bewildering as a whole.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ella Taylor
Though the imprint of Douglas Sirk is all over Sachs's homage to old movies about restless men in bad suits and untrustworthy women in lovely frocks, his immediate reference point is clearly Haynes's "Far From Heaven."Read Full Review »
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