- Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Release Date: Sep 16, 2005
- Summary: A compelling, humor-tinged romantic mystery that is not so much a "who done it" as an exploration of the riddle of why people make the fatal errors they do - in life, in marriage and when their decisions count the very most. (Fox Searchlight)
- Director: Julian Fellowes
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 30
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Mixed: 8 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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91Wilkinson once again astonishes with his ability to convey weakness and strength, hypocrisy and gallantry, cruelty and compassion in the same male animal.
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80With Separate Lies, Fellowes has made a truly adult film -- not because of its content or themes, but because it knows that real drama often lies in the accepted and unspoken realms of life.
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80The story presents a moral morass involving betrayal, illicit sex, hypocrisy and a crime, yet the film feels tidy. Only one punch gets thrown, and you sense the perpetrator regrets his action immediately. It is all very British.
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60Quality acting and writing and appropriately understated direction, but a touch too polite for its own good.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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StephaneM.10
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HalB8
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AngusH.8
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RhettW.7Very subtle stuff. It was not totally satisfying.
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