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Intimacy
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69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    Vibrating with humanity, it's a potent portrait of love, ranging from the purely carnal to the impurely sublime.
  2. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    100
    A new version of the greatest psychological mystery of all: love.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    A triumph for all concerned, it is especially so for the multitalented Chereau.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Richard M. Porton
    90
    Chereau's film is both an observant portrait of class-bound London by a foreigner and an empathetic look at sexual passion that completely avoids cheap prurience.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    80
    Although much has and will be made of the film's sexual explicitness -- and, yes, it is a bit -- this less-than-perfect but deeply felt film is finally most daring for its hard-core insistence on our need for connection.
  6. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    80
    It isn't the sex that shocks here, it's the chilling core of loneliness. Intimacy dares to cut deep, and its daring gets to you.
  7. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    80
    Intimacy doesn’t answer the question, which makes it all the more tantalizing: This is an emotional puzzle movie.
  8. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    A raw, wounding, powerfully acted film, and you cannot look away from it.
  9. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Marta Barber
    75
    You may be drawn to Intimacy's graphic scenes, but you'll emerge convinced there's more to life -- and the film -- than sex.
  10. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    75
    A disconcerting experience.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    75
    Jay and Claire are exquisitely played by Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.
  12. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    Sometimes gets bogged down in its own wordiness.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    Powerfully acted, intensely carnal drama.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    70
    If Intimacy does anything well, it portrays desperation, in many different forms.
  15. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    70
    A tortured reflection on the complex relationship between love, sex, desire and obsession, distinguished by courageously raw performances from leads Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.
  16. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    67
    Chereau's film is disjointed and abrupt and it rages when is should be deft. We're given too little too late and, despite the lessons that lie within the affair, the lines between enlightenment and nihilism blur.
  17. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Plays like a warmed-over "Last Tango in Paris," with more explicit sex but a lower level of originality and acting skill.
  18. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    Some people will want to call it pornography. In one respect, it's the opposite.
  19. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Wants to be a "Last Tango in Paris" for the new millennium, but its flaccid dramatization and hollow moralizing doesn't rise even to the level of last year's "An Affair of Love," let alone Bertolucci's masterpiece.
  20. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Ron Wells
    50
    It's ironic that a film exploring the mysteries of how people succeed and fail to connect with each other then fails to really connect with its audience.
  21. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    50
    Authentically British or not, Intimacy is squarely in the indigenous kitchen-sink style -- a far cry from the absurdly chic, sentimental pseudo-worldliness of something like "An Affair of Love."
  22. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: David Ehrenstein
    50
    A lacerating study of sexual alienation.
  23. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: David Denby
    50
    The movie holds one in its surly grip, but when it's over, few people, I think, are likely to be haunted by it. Futility may work as a mood in a short story, but in a full-scale movie it doesn't bear looking at for very long. (29 Oct 2001, p. 92)
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