Intolerable Cruelty
Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 10, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
33
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The Coens do an efficient job of stamping their signature grotesquerie on sumptuous Beverly Hills and Las Vegas settings and ladling on gallows humor and malice, sometimes with the verve of early Robert Zemeckis. Read full review
60
SlateDavid Edelstein
The 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. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJean Oppenheimer
The Coen brothers had a golden opportunity to make a darkly humorous, deliciously clever battle of the sexes, and they let it slip through their fingers. Instead, the duo... settled for a broad farce that is long on manic, cartoonish behavior and short on intelligence and wit. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
With Intolerable Cruelty, though, something scares me: I cannot detect a heartbeat of feeling, no matter how close I press a stethoscope against the star machinery of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Intolerable Cruelty seems the kind of movie that results from two essentially erudite, anarchic talents playing down to the masses. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Intolerable Cruelty, while tolerable, isn't very radical--or very good, either. The Coens wrote the script eight years ago on assignment, not intending to direct it, and that may explain why the result often lacks their customary bizarro facetiousness. Read full review
50
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
This is a decidedly hit or miss deal which, despite the current outpouring of critical praise, is destined to rank among the Coen's least memorable achievements. Read full review
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