We Don't Live Here Anymore
Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: August 13, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
14
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Though the violence in this film never becomes physical, the psychic wounds these people inflict on one another cut so deeply you wish it would. It's a grueling experience. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Well-acted drama. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
With We Don't Live Here Anymore, it's the audience that may want to leave and start a new life. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
What it lacks is the wit or even the cynicism to lighten the emotional load. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The actors are better than the material. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
You get the sense that the cheap thrill of cheating is like putting a Band-Aid on a broken bone. The movie feels just as inadequate emotionally and psychologically. There's a lot of outward behavior but no inner life. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
What you're smelling is Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm" without the pathos and the punch, or John Updike's "Rabbit Redux" minus the insight and the style. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Like the bad fight that ends the bad marriage: ugly, messy, loud, sometimes incoherent, but ultimately necessary. You're glad when either of them -- the marriage or the movie -- is over. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
There's no character to root for in this movie, no potential triumphs or resounding failures, just the sense of people going through the motions because they can't bother to think of anything better to do. And that's not a lot to hang your moviegoing hat on. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The rest of us can pass this by, unless we're such fans of the actors - Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, Laura Dern and Peter Krause - that we'd watch them in anything. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
It is almost completely devoid of any trace of humor. It radiates a luxurious, all-encompassing mopeyness. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
May be very much about feelings, but it's made with a drab, juiceless, tasteful efficiency that distances us from the characters instead of drawing us closer to them. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverMelissa Levine
An hour of dour stagnation is a lot to take, even with good acting. So when the action finally does shift, toward the end of the film, it is a welcome relief. Read full review
40
EmpireAnna Smith
If you're looking for a film to put you off marriage, children, affairs, and indeed life itself, look no further than this melancholic ensemble piece about listless adulterous couples in small-town New England. Read full review
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