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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 04 Sep 2013

Smartly assembled and honest when it comes to the longing of its characters, approaching a potentially disquieting situation of attraction…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 04 Sep 2013

The major problem with this film is that we never see what the leads do in their sexual partners other than physical specimens and the lack…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Sep 2013

It falls to Wright and Watts to shoulder the heavy lifting here, and they do so with as much grace as the plot will allow…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Sep 2013

It's a challenging film, but maybe not as challenging as it should be…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 Sep 2013

Trying to be provocative with a capital P, Anne Fontaine's Adore undermines itself by provoking unintended laughs…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 04 Sep 2013

To begin with, how painful is it to watch actors as intelligent as Naomi Watts and Robin Wright mug their way through the story of two hard-bodied…

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By Johanna Schneller (84) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 04 Sep 2013

Outré love stories are great, as are love stories that make viewers squirm…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 Sep 2013

One of the things that makes Adore, which was written by Christopher Hampton, hard to take seriously is how seriously it takes itself, how…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 04 Sep 2013

Though Fontaine makes sure the beaches are sun-dappled and the women’s shared house comes off like a sandy paradise, the movie is like the…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Sep 2013

The setup promises more intrigue than the film ultimately delivers…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Sep 2013

Adore has the distinction of featuring some of the most laughable dialogue in any movie this year…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 03 Sep 2013

Given the level of sophistication at which the movie operates, they might as well have called it Motherlover, after the Lonely Island video…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 02 Sep 2013

As edgy female wish-fulfillment fantasy, showing that fantasy’s consequences, Adore engrosses and engages, never titillates and never betrays…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Sep 2013

You can barely stifle a laugh, and the way Wright and Watts deliver rote, morally searching dialogue with deer-in-the-headlights stoicism (“We’ve…

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By John Oursler (19) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Sep 2013

The disparity between the inherently trashy appeal of the story and the self-serious way it's presented cripples much of the potential for…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Jun 2013

Everything is spelled out literally and at a stultifying pace, in a story that might have worked onscreen as either heightened melodrama or…

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By Damon Wise (265) for The Guardian (2,969) on 26 Jun 2013

An incredibly provocative piece of work, featuring a brave and vulnerable performance by Naomi Watts (who seems perhaps a little too young)…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Jun 2013

A ludicrous melodrama that begs to be handled as an over-the-top sex farce is instead treated with the solemnity of a wake, albeit one with…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 21 Jan 2013

Fontaine is a capable director...But the moment that the dialogue begins, any nuance is lost, with key emotional moments generating laughter…

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