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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 07 Sep 2013

A compelling, dangerous meditation on the stifling nature of convention, and the fluid nature of emotional bonding when societal norms are put aside…

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By Chris Sawin (379) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 07 Sep 2013

Adore is able to capture the indecisive nature of human desire rather effortlessly, but it's as if the drama purposely makes that indecisiveness…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Sep 2013

Adore is a proudly feminist film, with both its pedigree and its themes allowing additional opportunities for women…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 05 Sep 2013

An exceedingly silly, sun-baked sex movie, the kind of import that adds just enough brains to its genitals to get into U.S. arthouses…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 05 Sep 2013

What's shocking here is how not shocking all this is…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 05 Sep 2013

Two lifelong female friends take up with each other's sons, in a movie long on looks and short of substance…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 05 Sep 2013

This Australian film is a total MILF (Melodrama I'd Like to Forget)…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 05 Sep 2013

Astonishingly, Wright and Watts sell their characters - the yearning, the bond, the inevitable wrong ahead. But Adore remains too much of a stretch…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 05 Sep 2013

I have no idea why such strapping young men would be so desperate for sex as to hook up with a couple of museum artifacts they've known all…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 05 Sep 2013

Adore suffers from a handful of problems that effectively prevent one from wholeheartedly connecting to the material…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 05 Sep 2013

Forces the viewer to consider those complex emotions from a distance, rather than dramatizing them in anything more than the most oblique or…

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By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Sep 2013

For a story with so much feeling, there’s surprisingly little emotional resonance in Adore…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Sep 2013

Adore is, as my late mother would say in describing Sidney Sheldon novels, good trash…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 05 Sep 2013

Working from a script by the gifted Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement), who seems to have traded his wit for a paycheck, Fontaine…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 Sep 2013

Adore at its core is a bore, nothing more…

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By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2013

So deadly serious and yet so goofily unbound that, in some scenes, incest truly seems like it's on the scandalous menu…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 04 Sep 2013

Watts and Wright movingly convey their characters' journeys: caught up in new, reckless love; frightened by the passage of years; determined…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 04 Sep 2013

There's an undeniable ick factor to this film that overwhelms the justifiable cougar angle. Even worse is the boredom that soon sets in…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 04 Sep 2013

The film has an impressive pedigree -- screenplay by Christopher Hampton, from a novel by Nobel laureate Doris Lessing -- but still feels like…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 04 Sep 2013

A bold and vivid exploration of the sexual desire of two middle-aged female friends…

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