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Intolerable Cruelty

2003

Joel Coen

George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton ...

5.5

22,090

Comedy. Romance Miles Massey is a top divorce attorney who is hired to represent Rex Rexroth, a wealthy businessman against Marilyn, his gold-digging wife. Miles becomes attracted to Marilyn but manages to win the case. Now Marilyn is out for revenge...

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Intolerable Cruelty' is a rarity among contemporary Hollywood comedies in that it actually has gags (...) Considering the usual deluge of romcom infantilism, this is a treat.(...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"The Coens' first mainstream romantic comedy is a superb hijacking of an ailing art form - short, sharp and frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious."	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"An intelligent, modern screwball comedy (...) This film has the kind of swift, smart farcical writing that has actually found a snugger nest in television series comedy than in theaters."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"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"	NEU
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people."	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	Proving he's the closest thing to Cary Grant in contempo cinema, George Clooney effortlessly radiates mischievous charm in "Intolerable Cruelty," a thoroughly entertaining comedy"	POS

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