The Dying Gaul

Name: The Dying Gaul
Director: Craig Lucas
Released: 2005

Synopsis

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

90
Washington Post
A small, self-contained gem of incisive writing, superb acting and rich, expressive visuals.
80
Film Threat
The Dying Gaul is Craig Lucas's film directing debut, and it's impressive. The film never feels one bit like a stage adaptation.
80
The A.V. Club
Lucas' beautiful script and a trio of first-rate performances carry the material with an intermittently breathtaking urgency.
75
Chicago Tribune
The Dying Gaul stays interesting even when it asks more and more--too much, probably--of the audience's disbelief suspension.
75
Rolling Stone
The actors could not be better. Sarsgaard, Scott and the luminous Clarkson negotiate the film's razor-sharp laughs and bone-deep tragedy with resonant skill. Lucas' powerfully haunting film gets under your skin.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Before it disappears into a fog of confusion and damaging contradictions within its characters, The Dying Gaul presents an ironic, provocative look at what its creator, Craig Lucas, calls a postmodern Hollywood noir.
70
L.A. Weekly
If you cut through Lucas' thickets of self-reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.
60
Variety
Despite a reliable cast led by Scott, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard, the human impact is ultimately lost in a too calculated scenario.