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Sleeping with the Enemy

1991

Joseph Ruben

Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence ...

5.5

11,691

Thriller. Mystery. Drama

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"As an actress, Roberts has more than a great smile. She’s alive on screen (...) But someone should have realized that audiences would be on her side even if every single moment of a movie weren’t calculated to put them there"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Everything surprising and gripping about the movie happens in the first 20 minutes, and after that it follows a predictable course"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The script (...) is a tissue of so many stupid and implausible contrivances that the only possible way of enjoying it is by taking your brain out to lunch"	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Joseph Ruben has directed Sleeping With the Enemy with full appreciation of his leading lady's disarming beauty but less successful attention to the people and places that surround her"	NEU
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"'Sleeping With the Enemy' wants to be about one woman's rebirth, but Roberts neither grows nor glows in this empty movie"	NEG
United States	Jay Carr Boston Globe	"The script and direction are her real enemies here. Sleeping with the Enemy is a vehicle with too many manufacturing defects"	NEU
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"Everything that might have set Sleeping With the Enemy apart and made it memorable has been swept aside in the rush to make the movie a luxury item"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Because the opening scenes of Sleeping with the Enemy are so powerful, the rest of the movie is all the more disappointing"	NEG

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