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90
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Something not seen in movie theaters for a long time: an intelligent, modern screwball comedy, a minor classic on the order of competent, fast-talking curve balls about deception and greed like Mitchell Leisen's "Easy Living" and Billy Wilder's "Major and the Minor."
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80
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It's over-the-top. It's wild. It's filled with outrageous behavior all around.
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80
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances.
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80
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
None of this would work, of course, without stylish performances in the leads and Mr. Clooney and Ms. Zeta-Jones do themselves and their dubious characters proud.
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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Near the end of this smart, speedy romantic farce, the comic engine hits a wall and sputters. Until then, this Coen brothers film -- easily their silliest -- is fueled by a screwball fizz that keeps the laughs popping.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle
Too slick but amusing marital farce.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Not brilliantly funny nor incisively clever, Intolerable Cruelty is still moderately satirical and laugh-out-loud enjoyable.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
So clever, so funny, so suavely entertaining that it comes as a shock to realize that it's not nearly as satisfying as all those qualities would lead you to believe.
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63
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie has many scenes of delicious comedy, Clooney and Zeta-Jones play their characters perfectly in an imperfect screenplay.
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50
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa 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.
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