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This is one of the most brilliant movies I've ever watched

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2017

This is one of the most brilliant movies I've ever watched. The first time I watched it, I was younger and couldn't relate to the characters or the plot, and I remember being somewhat repulsed by the movie. Years later, after I had experienced more of life, I had cause to come back to it, and the characters and the plot spoke deeply to me. I have watched sections of the movie now and again, and it never fails to move me. The characters are flawed, and the pain they feel is introduced into their lives through their own actions. There is lying and deceit. The movie is about the complications of relationships through the prism of love. It is hurtful, yet poignant to watch.

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gabbygirl

Polluted

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2019

Oh Hollywood how far you have fallen. In a few years there won't be any movies for decent people to see. This was one of the worst movies I have ever fast forwarded through. There is no romance here or love, only grossness and ugly, whiny, weak, selfish people.

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Tullia

A Sordid Nasty Film!

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2019

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I chose this film because Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owens are in it. I thought it would be good. I was wrong.

This is about two couples who exchange partners with each other back and forth. It is a sordid, tawdry, nasty film. Anna, played by Julia Roberts, is a successful photographer. She photographs Dan, an author, played by Jude Law, who promptly declares his love for her only having met her this one time. Dan is in a relationship with Alice, played by Natalie Portman. By an odd coincidence Dan brings Larry, played by Clive Owens, and Anna together. They marry. However, Anna and Dan engage in a torrid affair for a year. Dan reveals this to Alice who is heartbroken. She leaves Dan and returns to her old occupation as a stripper. Anna tells Larry that she is having an affair with Dan for a year. He freaks out. Larry finds Alice in a strip club and has a fling with her.

It is in the strip club that Alice tells the truth to Larry, but he does not believe her.

There is a bit of a surprise ending.

This film, however, is a waste of time surprise ending or no.

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Rob Bry

Neurotic and Twisty

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2021

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The neuroticism of the characters is redundant and tiresome. The eroticism that all of the cursing eludes to is never in your purview, but the movie seems to come off as a modern day Basic Instinct. But all actors involved should have followed their own Basic Instincts and never agreed to partake in this sophomoric attempt to trash adulthood as if it people never grow beyond puberty. It was a train wreck that you can't look away from because you hope there will be survivors, but sadly no careers could survive this epic disaster of a film.

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Initially interesting but ultimately pointless and discouraging

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2021

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I will admit that the movie has an interesting opening and is well done. But it's basically a story about people having affairs. It seemed like all but Alice, a stripper, weren't all all committed. It's a little hard to see the main character, Daniel, be such a jerk. In that vein, it was interesting to see how people having affairs can be so self righteous.

Very little redeeming qualities to the movie. But this movie just foretells the endless disillusionment and promiscuity that seems to have completely taken over Hollywood.

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Thom J.

Filth and debauchery

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020

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totally absurd, revolting and disgusting. what is the meaning? why the nastiness and the sinister acts? with such crew [knew of 3 of them and not the Portman one] why the waste of money to make such nastiness? Why the wasting of the crew's time and more so why the wasting of audience's time to see filth that is not necessary to be seen or known? nothing good lives in this world that a film maker might want to make HIMself useful by portraying in a film? yuck yuck and again i say yuck...phooey!

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Glama Puss

Four beautiful people who cant...

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2021

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understand themselves or each other. Have to admit that Clive Owen steals this one when he's angry, and he certainly was the more clever of the two men in the end. But it's all very shallow and the flashbacks are confusing. Do not recommend.

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Jeff W

Not witty, not romantic, not worth watching

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2021

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This movie isn't a rom-com, and it's not a tragedy. It's a bouncy ball of screw-ups that pretends to be the human condition. Ugh. It was so painful to watch that I only made it 3/4 of the way through. You don't get to know any of the characters well enough to feel their pain through to the end, and you certainly don't like them enough to.

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George Kucera

Artsy nonsense. Good actors/actresses all playing characters cut from the same cloth.

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2021

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It is not awful, but certainly not very good given the talent and script-writing capabilities on display. It had its moments, but always failing because of a monolithic point of view driving everything.

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