Intolerable Cruelty
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 82 Ratings
- Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Catherine Zeta Jones, George Clooney
- Summary: A romantic comedy about a man who wins in court and a woman who courts to win. (Universal Pictures)
- Director: Ethan Coen
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Crime
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Positive: 33 out of 40
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Mixed: 7 out of 40
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100Tight as a drum, glamorous and exquisitely funny, this one should earn them (Coens) enough cash to make five more offbeat minor masterpieces like "The Man Who Wasn't There" -- and the Coens deserve that as much as we do.
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80Zeta-Jones is merely ravishing, but Clooney owns the film. Ordinarily best at sardonic, man's-man confidence, he strides through Intolerable Cruelty with fantastic screwball zest. To see Clooney tenderize, season, grill, and serve this ham hock of a role is to see an old-fashioned virtuoso in perpetual motion.
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80Probably the Coen’s funniest movie since “Raising Arizona.”
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60The glibness exhausts you, and the Coens are emotionally so far outside their subject that Intolerable Cruelty is finally no different from most of the other dumb slapstick spoofs that pass for screwball comedy these days.
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Positive: 26 out of 52
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Mixed: 3 out of 52
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Negative: 23 out of 52
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DanB.8Plot was a little hackneyed and smooth but Clooney gives such a great performance... and anyway, come on: everybody likes berries!
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