Closer

Name: Closer
Director: Mike Nichols
Released: 2004

4.67

Synopsis

Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

90
Time
Funny, hurtful, splendidly acted.
88
Rolling Stone
Mike Nichols' haunting, hypnotic Closer vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
80
Newsweek
Here's a surprise: of the four actors in Closer, Clive Owen is the least famous, but he delivers the most memorable performance.
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Closer is marred by some drippy music courtesy of Damien Rice and a small-surprise ending that feels like gimmicky irony. But the film's core idea is compelling.
80
The A.V. Club
Dramatically leaps through time, covering months or sometimes years in the span of a single cut. The effect is jarring and exhilarating, but it also bucks the common idea that relationships deepen over time.
80
Dallas Observer
Full of intellectual stimulation as well as low, dark pleasures--"Carnal Knowledge" redux!
70
Variety
The caustic wit and brute force of Patrick Marber's acclaimed play come across with a softened edge in Mike Nichols' bigscreen version of Closer.
70
Village Voice
Closer casts a smugly amused eye on the human capacity for betrayal. But because it also seeks to congratulate its audience for its urbane unshockability, it never strays beyond the limits of middlebrow complacency.