
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the four leading characters in a box and strips them apart.... (Full plot summary below)
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Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the four leading characters in a box and strips them apart.
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| Washington PostDesson ThomsonEverything is tearful confessions, angry interrogations and breakups. But there's nothing underneath. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsDevolves into a series of opposite-gender matches, increasingly unsubtle. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThey are all so very articulate, which is refreshing in a time when literate and evocative speech has been devalued in the movies. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaNos permite observar a interação de quatro pessoas complexas e interessantes. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonIf it makes you uncomfortable, or leaves you disturbed, it has only done its job. |
| The Film YapNick RogersOne of 2004's best, this unpredictable shell game dazzles with savage truth, its harsh, ugly discourse reminiscent of Neil LaBute before he softened into repetition. |
| Village VoiceDennis LimCloser 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. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseStrangers becoming lovers, lovers becoming estranged: the paradox of oh-so-modern coupling keeps the home fires burning in Patrick Marber's astringent Closer. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinNone of the characters is particularly likable, and they all do and say terrible things to one another, but they never devolve into anything less than human. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisFrom Marber's fiercely polished writing, Nichols wrings every drop of acid, yet it's a show of the director's goodness that a movie fundamentally preoccupied with interpersonal ugliness is allowed to end on a convincing note of beauty. |