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	Closer Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Closer is a bit of a highlight reel—more, actually, of a lowlight reel—of relationships beginning and ending.
		Visually, Closer is the opposite of his last project, HBO's six-hour adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, yet both projects cut to the core of human relationships.
		When a movie is so absorbing that critics forget to take notes; when Julia Roberts' performance can make you forget that the birth of her twins is making headlines; when a play comprised entirely of two-person scenes is more mesmerizing than any action-packed adventure, that's when a movie deserves the word "brilliant."
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139543&LF=MRM&LF=MRP (1691 words)

	Movie Review: Closer
		But the critical word on the movie was such that I was just about ready to make the sacrifice of a road trip to head for a larger city to see it.
		Closer is very much the story of how much love can hurt, not only in the ways we can be hurt by those we love or the manner in which we can hurt them, but most painfully of all in the way we can sometimes choose to rub salt into our own bleeding wounds.
		Closer is rated R for "sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality, [and] language." This is not a movie for children.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2004/closer.html (982 words)

	all movie search, closer reviews, closer pictures
		Closer, adapted by Patrick Marber from his 1997 play, is set in modern London.
		Now that I think about it, the accident or inciting incident of this movie is probably a metaphor of things to come to this couple.
		The movie spans four years and deals with the beginnings and endings of these four selfish characters.
	www.1moviesearch.com /movies/closer.htm (592 words)

	Lee's Movie Info - Closer Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Closer is a film that you are bound to either like (to whatever level) or really dislike.
		While Closer doesn’t change my view on those accusations, it’s a step in the same line as Brockovich for her; it’s nice to see her as more of a character than as a wide smile that lasts for two hours.
		Closer, as an experience, is more about observing than being a piece of entertainment; if you want to be entertained you are likely to be grossly bored and think this is one of the worst films of the year.
	www.leesmovieinfo.net /Article.php?a=596 (1116 words)

	Closer: A Movie Review by Jack Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Closer is one of those dramas that breaks you down and lifts you up at the same time - you're caught off guard by its power and honesty, but you end up rejoicing in its exquisite poetry and truth.
		Closer is quiet so that the characters can be heard; nothing keeps this movie from the truth at the end of its story.
		For the people in Closer, sex is the tie that binds and the ultimate tool of betrayal, a terribly powerful force that's talked about as though it were a plague and described with the nastiest vocabulary.
	www.mooremovies.com /closer.htm (1167 words)

	Closer Movie Review - Closer Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		In "Closer," that need can't be met, although it doesn't stop these people from looking for love, even if it means battering and breaking the lovers they already have.
		But working with the movie's emotional scheming and traces of dark comedy, Nichols is completely in his element, and the picture, while noticeably cerebral, is never antiseptic.
		The movie's use of tanks and aquariums, for one thing, is not as hokey as you would think.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=5681 (1329 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Closer
		"Closer," directed with a surgical workmanlike quality by Mike Nichols (2000's "What Planet Are You From?"), is a motion picture of starts and stops—not involving the pacing, which is slow but always absorbing, but within the horribly dysfunctional relationships between its four characters.
		Another sequence between Larry and Alice in the backroom of the strip club is a bravura ten minutes of sharply written and acted precision, as they dance around the real subjects at hand and tempt each other as a respite to their failed relationships with Anna and Dan.
		"Closer" doesn't offer much audience satisfaction because they are placed in the character's terminally unsatisfied shoes, but it does welcome, and even demand, conversation and post-screening discussions.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-5/closer.htm (907 words)

	America \| The National Catholic Weekly - Surfaces
		Larry (Clive Owen) is a dermatologist, who by the nature of his specialization avoids the inner workings of his patients, and can even rearrange appearances to suit his or their whims.
		In “Closer,” Larry and Anna, Dan and Alice, seem to stumble into their nastiness, and once they sink into it, they are either unaware of the pain they bring into the lives of others, or if they are, they simply don’t care.
		They are self-absorbed shells who can’t get closer to anyone or anything, and that is the portrait of contemporary life that Marber, Nichols and these extraordinary actors illuminate in all its ugliness.
	www.americamagazine.org /MovieReview.cfm?articleTypeID=41&textID=3984&issueID=516 (1435 words)

	Closer (2004/I)
		Mike Nichols presents it in an amazing way, very faithful to the words as they're written (and they should be, for the movie is also written by the man who wrote the play, the brilliant Patrick Marber).
		All of the cast brought the movie alive.
		Simply put, the movie is not for everyone (especially not for seeing with a parent or young child); it's a mature adult flick, and does not back down from anything.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0376541 (815 words)

	Movie Forums - Closer (2004)
		Its a movie about sex really, and about a sex-addict doctor who you can tell in the movie he is absolutely crazy, and the other characters who just want to pursue each other for sexual pleasures.
		This movie isn't great, but it is very well acted, has good camera work and art design, and most importantly a story that examines ugly truth rather that pretty convention.
		This movie gives an amazing glimpse into a love "square" (i think i may have just made up a new term) and shows how revenge, lust, dishonesty and how not knowing what you want out of a relationship can ruin anything that good that could have developed between the two.
	www.movieforums.com /community/printthread.php?t=9416 (2203 words)

	Closer (2004) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Closer is an absolutely brutal exploration into relationships, intimacy, betrayal and sex - but presents all of this without any scenes that portray the sex act itself.
		Closer weaves it’s complex tale around four individuals whose lives intersect in a series of volatile ways.
		Closer is an intelligent, thoughtful expose about people trying to figure out what they want, and not always getting it.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2004/closer.php (775 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Closer" Movie Review
		Full of chance meetings, instant attraction and casual betrayals, the movie is setup like a group of individual snapshots, brief glimpses inside the lives of people trying to find that one love connection grounding them for the rest of their lives.
		The irony of Closer is that, as an audience, we are no closer to these four characters by the end of the melodrama as we were at the start.
		But that’s part of the movie’s strength, the duo realizes the open-ended nature of love is part of what makes falling into it so mystifyingly special.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/c/closer.htm (1261 words)

	Pelepubs Movie Review - CLOSER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Julia Roberts was the reason I saw this movie, because I thought that the bar would be pretty high for her to star in it.
		The movie is about a love “quadrangle”, not a love triangle, whereby the relationships among four people stop and start depending upon their individual psychoses of the day.
		Closer received a lot of advance hype, as many movies do that are released at the height of the year-end season, and especially for newcomer actor Clive Owen, playing a doctor by the name of Larry.
	www.pelepubs.com /movies/moviereview.shtml?id=24 (349 words)

	Closer - Movie Review
		The love triangle has long been a staple of erotic drama, but 'Closer' offers filmgoers the less familiar geometry of the love square, with a plot that is decidedly circular, as, over a four-year period in 'swinging' London, its four characters exchange partners and rôles, before ending up more or less where they started.
		For this is the central paradox of 'Closer', encapsulated in its ambiguous title: that intimacy can both bring strangers closer, and bring relationships to a close, as partners give away too much, or not enough, of themselves.
		'Closer' anatomises relationships and the sexes with a brutally honest precision, leaving little room for optimism, and needless to say it is a film best avoided on a first date (let alone on the night of an intended break-up).
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1046 (619 words)

	Movie Review: Closer / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nor is this the movie for you if you found Alfie too downbeat and depressing; compared to Closer, Alfie is the feel-good movie of the year.
		However, if you're up to it, Closer is a rare chance to see four fine actors who are at the top of their game guided by a brilliant director.
		The movie business is nothing if not ageist, and hopefully Closer will clue some people in on what we're missing by relegating some of our best filmmakers to the small screen just because they're no longer in the first flush of youth.
	www.mountainx.com /movies/c/closer.php (1137 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review CLOSER movie by Mike Nichols with Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick ...
		It's a formidable foursome and with veteran director Mike Nichols ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") at the reins, the four-play in "Closer" is unquestionably dramatic.
		"Closer" is based on the play by Patrick Marber with Marber himself penning the wordy screenplay.
		As "Closer" opens (to the strains of Damien Rice's "The Blower's Daughter"), Dan (Jude Law) and Alice (Natalie Portman) are bobbing in slow-mo towards each other on a crowded London street.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/closer.php (707 words)

	Closer movie review
		"Closer" is a romantic drama based on the play by Patric Marber.
		It is a story of beautiful people and their selfish sex lives and glossy infidelity filled with oozing immorality.
		Even though it lacks reality, from an entertainment point of view, it is a beautifully structured, well acted movie with great laughs.
	www.webindia123.com /movie/international/reviews/closer/index.htm (526 words)

	Closer Movie Review - MovieWeb
		Closer is directed by Mike Nichols who has become the imprimatur for many movies and plays -- a lot of them great.
		It says something about the moral decline of the intervening years that Closer, in its premise, language and execution, is unwatchably crass.
		Like Virginia Woolf, Closer started as a theater piece (Patrick Marber wrote the play and script) and involves two London couples that get together in more combinations than are found in the average cootie catcher.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/44/2644/review4444.php (570 words)

	Closer - Rotten Tomatoes
		Closer is a startling and fascinating film that is both revealing and challenging, as it toys with the enormity of love and commitment.
		The movie is intricately plotted (taking sudden leaps in time and perspective) but flawlessly lucid.
		It’s the kind of movie that drives the Blockbuster clerk who's reshelving videos crazy...but it knows exactly what it wants to be: dizzying.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/closer (890 words)

	Closer Movie Map
		Closer is the latest project of Academy Award© winning director Mike Nichols, with a screenplay by Patrick Marber based on his acclaimed stage production.
		A searing critique of contemporary love shot exclusively in the capital - Film London, in conjunction with Visit London, have produced a special movie map to celebrate the release of this film (see downloads below).
		If you would like to know more about the movie map launch please see the Film London press release.
	www.filmlondon.org.uk /news_details.asp?NewsID=279 (158 words)

	A Movie Parable: Closer
		In Closer, director Mike Nichols uses four unlikable characters to explore sex, love, and relationships - showing how an unhealthy emphasis on sex can lead to the ruination of everything else.
		The movie itself seems relatively pointless but then again perhaps that is the point.
		The act of loveless sex is a selfish and rather meaningless event and to watch four individuals self-destruct and ruin whatever potential for real love that they have is pitifully sad.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2004/closer.asp (591 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - CLOSER
		The movie opens with Dan (Jude Law) walking down the street in London.
		The movie cuts ahead again and we see Anna rushing to meet Dan at a concert.
		They sit to have a drink and we learn that she met Larry earlier in the day to finalize the divorce.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/closer.html (1444 words)

	Closer: Movie-Source.com Closer Movie, Closer Preview, Closer Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For Roberts and Portman especially, "Closer" is definitely a large step past the darker films of their career.
		Within a matter of moments, two seemingly happy relationships have been turned upside down, and that is only the beginning of what these people will do to fulfill their own happiness, whether it be simple betrayal or sexual revenge.
		Technically, the movie is very character driven; the scenes are long and dialogue-heavy; director Mike Nichols ("The Graduate") has long stretches where there is no music playing.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=1647 (972 words)

	Movie Review: Closer
		But Closer holds that love is based on whim, not on values, and Law's writer is cheating on Portman by the next scene.
		Closer is a gimmick of time frame—months go by in seconds, books are published, characters get married, partners change—and at one point it goes backwards, just when it desperately needs to wrap things up and let everyone go home.
		Closer is closer to a high-gloss spit at the world, with a steady soundtrack that, like its plot, comes from nowhere.
	www.boxofficemojo.com /reviews/?id=closer.htm (500 words)

	IndyScribe: Movie Review: Closer
		I hated the fact that everyone in the movie was lying and cheating on everyone else, but they each expect the others to tell them the truth and be faithful.
		The only remotely redeeming thing about this movie, is that in the scene where we meet Anna, she's wearing some very cool corduroy mens trousers that look great on her.
		I believe the whole point of the movie was the way people continually lie to themselves and to others to strive to that ideal of happiness.
	www.indyscribe.com /film_tv/movie_review_closer.html (690 words)

	Closer (2004) Movie Review by Mark Dujsik at The Movie Insider
		The perceptive screenplay by Patrick Marber (based on his Tony-nominated play) is brimming with alternately witty and scathing—understated and explicit—dialogue and takes an intimately subtle approach to developing its characters.
		By the end of Closer, we don't find ourselves particularly liking any of these characters, yet we are utterly fascinated by them.
		There's an appropriate balance to the way things in turn out in the end, but no possible outcome could ever be considered a happy ending for these people, who would be on the verge of self-destruction if not for their egos.
	www.themovieinsider.com /mr564-closer-movie-review.html (1147 words)

	"Closer" Movie Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The last quarter of the year is usually pretty busy for me. I do some seasonal work that has its busy season in the last two months of the year.
		Also, on the movie review angle, there are a ton of movies that are released, both for the holiday season as well as sneaking out a film before the Oscar deadline.
		They forget that sometimes the success or failure of a movie has nothing to do with values or politics.
	www.7mpictures.com /inside/reviews/closer_review.htm (612 words)

	Closer Movie Review
		Mike Nichols is also suited for films of this nature, having directed "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (which in 1966 broke Hollywood taboos for adult material) and "Carnal Knowledge" (a depressing look at the sexual attitudes of two male friends from college through middle age).
		In Nichols' "Closer," which has been adapted by Patrick Marber from his own hit London play of 1997, we are shown four people whose relationships intertwine, people who could be happy if they were not so damn hostile, the men worse than the women.
		The most likable character, at least until the conclusion of the story when she lets loose against one of the men in her life, is Natalie Portman in the role of an American stripper who has taken the name Alice and is now working the poles in a posh London gentlemen's club.
	www.killermovies.com /c/closer/reviews/me7.html (791 words)

	Closer - Movie Rental Review
		The center of the movie is the relationship between the two men.
		In a scene added for the movie, Larry and Dan send instant messages to each other in an anonymous sex chat room, Dan pretending to be a woman.
		But this is not the best use of Roberts' considerable talents; it may be that Nichols was relying more on the shock value of hearing America's sweetheart speak about oral sex in explicit terms than on her ability to convey a superficially conceived character.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Closer.html (797 words)

	WaffleMovies.com - Closer
		This movie is trying so hard to be overwrought and melodramatic someone forgot to tell us a story, but it has plenty of emoting and yelling and longingly staring into each other's eyes as the actors all try to win Oscars.
		Whatever you do, don't take a date or significant other because this movie is bound to inspire uncomfortable discussions about what you would do in this situation.
		Exchanges between Daniel and Alice, as well as Daniel and Anna, are full of great one-liners you wish you could think of when speaking to someone of the opposite sex, and many of the fight scenes are daring, if not outright shocking.
	www.wafflemovies.com /closer.html (737 words)

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