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Unfaithful
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality, language and a scene of violence
Starring
Diane Lane,
Erik Per Sullivan,
Richard Gere,
Olivier Martinez,
Myra Lucretia Taylor,
Michelle Monaghan,
Chad Lowe,
and
Joseph Badalucco Jr.
An erotic thriller about the body language of guilt, centering on a couple living in the New York City suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Alvin Sargent
William Broyles Jr.
Claude Chabrol (film La Femme Infidele)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Adrian Lyne
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 17, 2002
Video: December 17, 2002
Theatrical: May 10, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
124 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's that rare kind of movie that comes along only a handful of times each year -- gut-level entertainment that's oddly profound.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama.

90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Lane is a force of nature. Her slow-burning, fiercely erotic performance charges the movie.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Meticulously crafted and beautifully performed.
88
USA Today
Mike Clark
Unfaithful doesn't push the melodrama the way "Attraction" did, but it lingers in the mind as much.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
All the accolades Lyne got for "Fatal Attraction" -- and didn't really merit -- he deserves here.

88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The movie doesn't stoop to cheap psychoanalysis and must be commended for a bravely ambiguous ending. But most of the credit goes to Lane, who is simply extraordinary as a woman whose body is at war with her conscience.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Like Lyne's other heavy-breathers, this one has glossy production values, a relentlessly somber mood and its share of sexual gymnastics. But it's atypical and unique in the way it builds a volcano waiting to erupt with nail-biting anticipation and sympathy for all three characters.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
This refitting of Claude Chabrol's 1968 classic "La Femme Infidele" is less concerned with suspense and dramatic fireworks than is the usual American "erotic thriller," and much more devoted to nuances and the minutiae of how men and women behave, pretend and lie in duplicitous situations.

80
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
It's one of the fullest portrayals of sexual desire and pleasure and fear I've ever seen in a movie.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Unfaithful shows what a powerful, sexy, smart filmmaker Lyne can be. Its a shame he substitutes the mechanics of suspense for the real suspense of what goes on between a man and a woman, a husband and a wife.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Lyne's excesses are usually the kind of thing I love to hate, but Unfaithful found me pretty much following along in step with his rhythms and dramatic choices.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
American movies are generally so skittish about sexuality that Adrian Lyne's appetite --and aptitude -- for exploring it in Unfaithful is a relief.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
That's what's intriguing about the film: Instead of pumping up the plot with recycled manufactured thrills, it's content to contemplate two reasonably sane adults who get themselves into an almost insoluble dilemma.

75
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Has its cheesy moments but it's bolstered by interesting performances and a final scene not typical of a mainstream movie. Though no "Fatal Attraction," Unfaithful nevertheless is an interesting and worthy film.
70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Trashy enough to envelop its sex scenes in aerobicized glamour (a Lyne trademark), so the fact that it takes itself so seriously almost counts as a daring move.

70
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
The irony is, it's his vulgarity, this mixture of the gaudy and the glossy, that distinguishes Lyne, that makes his work identifiable and, when the story's right, such a guilty pleasure.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Ms. Lane has the role of her career in Connie, and her indelible (and ultimately sympathetic) performance is both archetypal and minutely detailed.

70
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
Not bad for a mainstream suspensefest. Gere's good, Lane, as I said, is amazing in places and Lyne does some of his most assured work in years.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Though it is difficult to take Unfaithful as seriously as it takes itself, on its own terms it's quite well done.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The good points about Unfaithful can't overcome the movie's eventual downward spiral.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Despite some fine, nuanced acting (it's Lane's movie, to be sure), Unfaithful doesn't get much deeper than a romance novel.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Since life's infidelities have a way of ending on a messy note, it becomes art's responsibility to impose order upon the mess, to give it an aesthetically convincing shape. And that's exactly where Lyne falls short.

50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Comes off curiously flat.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Despite the Gallic source material, what we truly have in Unfaithful is a tasteful, adult-contemporary ''Fatal Attraction'' redux, right down to the mister's Soho address and the happy family tucked away in the New York hinterlands.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Doesn't reflect anyone's love or hatred for anything, just a lot of anxiety about test marketing, which means it takes a nosedive when it goes shopping for an ending.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
If ever a movie cried out to be French, it's this one, and not just because it's a remake of Claude Chabrol's notoriously icy La Femme Infidele (1968).

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Though it comes from a director whose résumé includes "Flashdance" and "9 ½ weeks," these smoke-filled interludes are less erotic than today's average car commercial.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Casual familiarity with Lyne's oeuvre is all you need to predict the major plot contortion.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
At what point in the movie is it too late to ask for your money back?

40
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
A glossy, depthless melodrama.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Heavy-handed symbolism permeates the picture, down to the leading lady's name.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
In the end, Unfaithful leaves you dispirited and grumpy: All that money spent, all that talent wasted, all that time gone forever, and for what? It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good.

0
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Even those looking to catch a few Diane Lane tit shots will be so exhausted by the endless nothingness between each one that it won't be worth it.

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