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09/11/09
The Other Man (2009)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:6
Rotten:27
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Despite the best efforts of a talented cast, The Other Man is talky, witless, and tension-free.
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based on a short story by Bernhard Schlink, The Other Man is a love story about a man (Liam Neeson) who discovers that his wife (Laura Linney) has been involved with another man (Antonio Banderas).... [More]
Starring: Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai
Director: Richard Eyre
Reviews for The Other Man
The screen version of Bernhard Schlink's short story The Other Man does not deliver. The secret at the heart of the film, after all the fractured narrative convolutions, is anti-climactic, and the conclusion is strained and awkward.
09/10/09
plays like a bleary, wandering dream.
09/10/09
If you like being manipulated by top-notch actors, you'll have a blast here. Otherwise you might lose your patience. I didn't.
09/10/09
The Other Man feels like a movie that focuses on the hole, instead of the doughnut.
09/10/09
The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha.
09/09/09
As the pathetic, decent lothario, Banderas lacks sexual threat just as the script’s various miscommunications lack Pinter menace. Neeson is too rough-hewn for the conflicted cuckold.
09/09/09
While we wait for the inevitable showdown, the film treats us to several surprising plot twists, but shock value can’t distract from the fact that Eyre and his actors are fighting a losing battle.
09/09/09
It hurts to see a terrific cast (including the lovely and intelligent young Irish actress Romola Garai as the couple's quietly seething daughter) squandered on such dreary filmmaking.
09/08/09
Good actors (including Liam Neeson and Laura Linney) are wasted in Eyre's new film, which is neither effective as anatomy of a troubled marriage nor satisfying as a Hitchcockian thriller about a missing wife.
08/13/09
...pretty much cements Richard Eyre's status as a high-brow purveyor of trashy fare...
10/28/08
Seldom has such great star power been marshaled in the service of a sillier movie than The Other Man.
10/03/08
Top CriticThe promising intrigue of a husband's bullheaded obsession with his wife's lover falls flat in The Other Man, directed with an indifferent hand by Richard Eyre.
09/08/08
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September 10, 2009:
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July 31, 2009:
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