Fresh
Owen and Portman give excellent, committed performances, leaving Law and Roberts in the shade.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Closer
If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking.
2004 · 1h 44m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Mike Nichols
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Closer
Overview
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Director and cast
- Mike Nichols Director
- Jude Law as Dan
- Natalie Portman as Alice
- Julia Roberts as Anna
- Clive Owen as Larry
- Colin Stinton as Customs Officer
- Nick Hobbs as Taxi Driver
- Steve Benham as Car Driver (uncredited)
- Elizabeth Bower as Chatty Exhibition Guest (uncredited)
- Daniel Dresner as Coughing Man (uncredited)
- Rrenford Junior Fagan as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Fresh
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.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh
Vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
If it makes you uncomfortable, or leaves you disturbed, it has only done its job.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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