Closer (2004)
A bitingly funny and honest look at modern relationships, Closer is the story of four strangers -- their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals. (Sony Pictures)
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Directed By: Mike Nichols
Written By: Patrick Marber
Starring: Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts
Country: USA
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| 5 |  |
closer_ | 93 99% |
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Closer is brilliant.It is classy. Nichols is a big chance for actors, he always directs actors very well. Julia Roberts is gorgeous and acted very well, she deserved an Oscar nomination for this. No need to say how Portman and Owen was great.Law is also very successful. Look closer ...
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Shmendrek | 1 10% |
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I hated all of these boring, pathetic assholes and their stupid, awkward dialog. Nothing. There is nothing to be learned from this movie. I'm choking on pretense. GHAGHAGHGHA HELP.
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Paxton | 65 46% |
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Fine, than I guess I WON'T cheat on my wife. This movie took to heart Alec Baldwin's acronym. ABC, Always be closing. Always. Be. Closing.
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Ytadel | 5 56% |
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Dares to ask the important question: What does Jude Law's cum taste like?
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Difontaine | 0 0% |
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Hateful awful film of utter pointlessness. Spectacularly annoying characters and a cloying script and that craptacular song, just an abyssmal film.
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CCLZA | 70 51% |
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Worth it for the great lines delivered perfectly by the cast.
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Danilolopes | 30 6% |
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"hello stranger...". Oh, c'mon, are you kidding?
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willofgaia | 85 58% |
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Like watching four scorpions in a death match.
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frederic_g54 | 7 57% |
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Some nice performances throughout with a merely adequate story, but I think plays should stay in theatres. I'd also love to see it one day, but seriously, enough with adaptations. People walking in slow motion with some Damien Rice music in the background is just not my cup of tea...
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Jeb | 85 70% |
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An adequate, profound and excellently executed film full of unforgettable and casually attracting moments. Almost the entire cast give out engaging and well thought out exhibitions, the highlight of them all being Owen and a very sexy Portman. An overall enthralling look at modern relationships and a nice outing from Mike Nichols.
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Hanne | 85 97% |
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I really liked the straightforward tone of the film and the fact that you really get a good insight in just 4 characters and their ideas about love, relationships and sex. A very daring and intriguing film.
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Gilly | 20 1% |
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Oh my god! Too much empty bla bla bla about sex and relationships.
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Indicam | 10 17% |
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Where did this come from? A completely and disgustingly uninteresting slew of big names and terrible plot twists.
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| 2 | Loki | 40 14% |
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Stupid two hour soap opera that features Natalie Portman as a stripper that doesn't remove her clothes. Nothing else in the movie is any less fake.
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newlikegrace | 40 17% |
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Depressing and indulgent.
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| 1 | filmdot | 94 91% |
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Gorgeous portrayal of 4 humans in different relationships. Clive Owen and Natalie Portman give career best performances but Julia Roberts is really the star player here. Not to be missed.
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tinysausage | 78 75% |
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It was alarmingly disconcerting to not have anyone to root for out of the four characters - we're so conditioned to look for good and evil in movie characters. So it's modern in that sense, and the dialogue is dazzling. But in the end it seemed like a morality play: "appreciate what you have", and "cheaters get their just desserts". This is no Hollywood portrayal of true love - we are all alone, there is no real intimacy, and all the couples are compromised to the core in order to be with each o
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| 1 | waddayanuts | 77 76% |
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You take four good actors, hand them some fiery, sharp dialogue and you get a bunch of intense scenes full of emotion and humour.
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tathiel | 86 88% |
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If one only looks at the cast one could say: Pretty typical cast for a ladies' movie. Actually, it isn't. Instead this is a cleverly done movie with an intelligent story and very complex characters that are all very well performed by the actors Law, Roberts, Portman and Owen.
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Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter) | 70 77% |
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It has everything that it needs to be one, but without having an emotional attachment to its characters, I didn't feel much emotion while watching it. It's intriguing, interesting and intelligent, while also having immoral, irrational and idiotic characters. And because I still have a few more words beginning with "i" to throw around, it is also impeccably inconsiderate due to its intense, imperfect characters constantly becoming irate because of some impatient and insane indecisiveness.
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Quimbo | 15 2% |
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Miserable people acting petulant
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Luna6ix | 87 93% |
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this is one of those movies you actually have to watch before judging. other than that there is no way of selling it to anyone.
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| 1 | JPTremors | 20 12% |
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Boring, boring, boring!.
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cinema_hell | 25 2% |
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I just can't believe this thing came out from the same guy who brought us Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
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andreuzeda | 60 18% |
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Pedante.
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dcorag | 65 11% |
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Only the opening and closing track by Damien Rice - The blowers daughter - is valuable in this film
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TripleSH | 32 20% |
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Instead of watching this movie, just watch a week's worth of Dr. Phil or any other like-minded relationship talk show. At least you'll get a decent resolution. While the acting is exemplary, the story is painfully thin and frustrating.
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| 1 | Shao | 41 2% |
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Screw this movie.
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| 1 | Bene | 20 4% |
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For a movie with the sole plot being relationships, it probably wouldn't hurt to make anybody care or even get those...
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MartinTeller | 65 26% |
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Closer is about as good as you would expect from the director and the cast. It's good, but not great. Has a fairly clever structure. But does the world really need more stories about infidelity? I didn't feel like I was getting anything new, and it didn't connect with me, didn't seem very real.
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JooJoo | 4 54% |
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Worth it for the breakup scenes, everything else is uniformly average - "...because I'm a FUCKING CAVEMAN" - lol.
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Cowman | 65 40% |
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This movie offers some interesting viewpoints on sex and relationships and has some powerful dialogues, but in the end it was all a bit too melodramatic and maybe even a little bit pretentious.
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| 1 | Alatus | 98 96% |
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A 'realistic' love story. Not hollywood happy endings. Depressingly Uplifting.
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Nathan S | 2 21% |
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It tries so hard to be profound, but it just... fails. It's character driven, but none of the characters are very memorable or even likable. The acting isn't particularly hot either (but Natalie Portman is).
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mynameismax | 95 98% |
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Bloody brilliant - it's a fantastic play and it really does a great job of maintaining that theatrical feeling. Worth seeing even just for the scene between Clive Owen and Julia Roberts near the middle. Witty writing and gritty characterisation make this a keeper in my books.
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grimsooth | 56 50% |
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A look at the frequent missteps of people trying to land idealized relationships. The plot progression almost exclusively takes the form of random cuts with huge jumps in continuity and time without warning. It really ruins the movie, especially since it could've been saved by 1 to 3 seconds of transition at most. Since the main character doesn't grow in anyway while also not acting with an internal consistency the film's dramatic aspect suffers. Strong performances make it watchable.
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Pickpocket | 3 28% |
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(2nd viewing) Why did I like this the first time I saw it? Who knows? The first 5 minutes of the movie are the most awkward, uncomfortable minutes I think I have ever experienced with cinema. Clive Owen's character was the only interesting one all the others were boring idiots. I also love how Natalie Portman plays a stripper who doesn't get naked. That's just great filmmaking.
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| 1 | Tate | 88 77% |
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Complex and difficult with great performances and great dialogue. Clive Owen and Julia Roberts give first-rate performances, while Jude Law and Natalie Portman are both very good.
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| 1 | Toolvixen | 20 1% |
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All that hype for nothing. True Portman's strip tease was the best part of the movie, how sad. It was long and dull.
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| 1 | JoshStew06 | 57 28% |
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Not crazy about this cold movie. It doesn't look like a play, but the dialouge sure sounds like it. Very stagey, and even a touch overacted in parts, with unlikable characters that don't really learn much at all. The cast is fine, and the movie has it's moments (especially the fight between Clive and Julia), but ultimately it's unmemorable.
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| 1 | svicciarelli | 75 21% |
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Great acting and direction, but the story is so far removed from normal human interactions that it puts a barrier between the audience and the characters. These people deserve the hell they put themselves in.
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Mentaculus | 37 12% |
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I usually love Mike Nichols films, despite their flaws; and he's always able to get amazing performances from even his minor actors. But I cannot stand this film; the dialogue and script must have looked like vomit on the page. Plus, it felt like it tried to hard ( = Oscar bait, which it was for reasons I cannot comprehend).
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| Average Percentile 53.81% from 6532 Ratings |  |