Pretty weak or the technical side but the plot and acting is on point. I love the thinly veiled thesis of how romance can be a weapon.

A mean and provocative theater adaptation with a hell of a bite.

Brilliant beginning. Well, and unforgettable ending; the twist does the thing. But the twist is the weakest point of the movie as well: it's too long monologue which spoils the whole thing. Story tries to grow the tension towards it, but even that does not success that good. The director does not get to the point in the way he wants.

Labute isn't as strong a director as he is a writer so his work behind the camera is the weakest part of this movie but a strong cast and one of Labute's better plays adapted for the script makes a damn decent movie. The end hits just as hard as in the play.

The twist ending was really good but extremely fucked up, definitely not what I was expecting. The problem with this movie was that it feels really fake, nothing really seems genuine. The conversations with Rudd and Weller are so bad sometimes, just some awful dialouge. That ending is gonna stay with me for awhile, that was so fucked up.

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A very stagey (even more so than Closer) movie with arc dialouge, and lots of overacting, that still isn't wholly unwatchable. The story and the idea behind it keep it afloat, but it's not half as insightful as it thinks it is.

More mean peopel from Neil LaBute- makes trenchant points about identity, but has too many lulls, and is LaBute's weakest film on the technical side.

Biting and brilliant stuff. An unflinching look at everyone's favorite game of love, master and servant. or artist and canvas.

I hated everything about this movie. Everything.

The problem with this movie is that it never manages to convince me that the story it's telling is actually taking place, or could take place. The reason is that the writing feels artificial, and the acting suffers as a result. Because the dialogue and characterization fail, the movie fails.

For people dying to have an In the Company of Women, this well-acted, achingly obvious stage adaptation should do the trick. Of notable interest to artists and those that despise them.

One of my favorite movies ever. Great (and very awkward) to watch with people who have never seen it before.

I've liked all the Neil LaBute films so far, but this one wasn't that great. It's adapted from the theater, and it shows with the dialogue being very stage-y and awkward. It felt like the actors weren't doing a good job, but they were probably just too used to doing it on stage. Gretchen Mol in particular seemed way off. It's an interesting and thought-provoking concept, though.

If you can endure an entire movie of unsympathetic, emasculated men and other assorted sociopaths, you'll find a simple point behind it all. I'm not sure whether it was intended, but this is a demonstration of the intellectual shallowness of solipsism. For that it was interesting, but I'm not sure if anybody really needs to see this, except for the last 10 minutes.

I really enjoyed this movie, I just felt like the acting was a little sub-par. Very mean-spirited, and modern--great story line. Though, you'd never know that by the summary given.