Enduring Love
Paramount Classics | Release Date: October 29, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
16
Negative:
1
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91
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
What blows us away is the power of Ifans' moist puppy eyes and chilling smile as a true believer undeterred by reality. Read full review
80
NewsweekDavid Ansen
A meditation on love, faith and science in the guise of a thriller, the movie's a tad schematic, but thoroughly gripping. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Enduring Love's plot inevitably drifts into “Fatal Attraction” territory, but its wholesale immersion in Craig's deteriorating condition render it a wrenching, uncompromising study of the human mind in freefall. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
British director, Roger Michell, strikes an assured balance between intense mood piece and Gothic chiller. Read full review
80
Washington PostStephen Hunter
It's the best kind of movie: so alive in its storytelling that only in retrospect do you realize that the ideas represent a metaphysical inquiry. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Spellbinding. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
If you don't compare it with the novel, it's one of the season's better films. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia Puig
A suspense thriller that intelligently explores the ideal of lasting love. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
Contains impeccable performances, especially by the frightening Ifans. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A gripping, very intelligent British thriller. Slowly, inexorably, it ties you in knots. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Technically outstanding and the performances are strong. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Most movies remain at the top level of action: They are about what happens. A few consider the meaning of what happened, and even fewer deal with the fact that we have a choice, some of the time, about what happens and what we do about it. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Haunting case study of a romantic obsession. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Adaptation of Ian McEwan's 1997 novel takes a surprising number of liberties with the text, given the author's stature, but his name on the credits as associate producer would suggest his stamp of approval. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Enduring Love is an intellectual investigation of love from three equally frustrating perspectives - the physical, the spiritual and that mixture of emotion, psychology and interpretation we call art - couched loosely in a cool stalker thriller. Read full review
70
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
That climax stretches credibility, but the whole point of the piece is that the Joe of the opening has become someone else. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
This is a grim, often lifeless tale played with such humorless intensity that watching it is far more like an endurance contest than a love affair. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Movie love is usually so idealized it ennobles behavior that ordinarily would be considered stalking. Enduring Love deliberately smudges the line between what is bizarre and what is simply human nature. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Ultimately, the movie suffers from the same fate as its characters. That first explosive scene creates a state of shock, leaving everyone and everything to drift about in a numbing vacuum. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
A fatal lack of character development dooms Enduring Love as little more than a fleeting curiosity. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Has more psychological complexity than the average suspense drama, and the results prove more satisfying than not. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLuke Sader
Daniel Craig, in his meatiest film role to date, delivers his usual incisive performance, even if this intimate drama of contemporary Londoners pushes the boundaries of credibility. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Mr. Michell whips the camera around too much and cuts into his scenes too quickly, but he pumps juice into this thin story and, together with his performers, keeps a movie going that might otherwise crash-land. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Thus does a book of literary distinction become not-so-grand-Guignol.
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
A cerebral thriller that dares to ask a fundamental question: What, exactly, is love? Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Director Roger Michell seems genuinely taken with the contrast between brotherly love and homosexual obsession, but these themes are overwhelmed by the suspense machinery. Read full review
60
EmpireNick De Semlyen
Some great acting and visuals make up for this thriller’s frostiness. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
There's something flat and obscure about this well-acted stalker movie. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
The ideas behind Enduring Love may be fascinating, but they don’t play; they sulk. Read full review
50
PremierePeter Debruge
One of those outrageous stalker thrillers in which so much trouble could have been avoided if the characters had only thought to call the police. Read full review
50
SlateDavid Edelstein
This slender, increasingly monotonous stalker plot feels ludicrously overintellectualized-full of hot air. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverMelissa Levine
The result is creepy and unpleasant. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Filmmaker Roger Michell doesn't so much adapt Ian McEwan's fine novel Enduring Love, a surgically precise anatomy of romance and obsession, as eviscerate it and wave its entrails before the audience. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
This depressing look at love isn't quite worth enduring. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Ultimately a creepy tale. Read full review
40
Village VoiceEd Park
Craig keeps Joe Rose on a hair trigger, but Morton is wasted as Claire; Ifans simply looks stoned. Read full review
40
SalonCharles Taylor
If Enduring Love doesn't make sense as a thriller, it's equally nonsensical as the parable it wants to be. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Although this script starts off with great zest, it's ultimately a disappointment. Read full review
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