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By Carol Cling (198) for Las Vegas Review-Journal (433) on 09 Oct 2003

A neo-screwball comedy that pits dapper yet dizzy George Clooney against the sinuously slinky Catherine Zeta-Jones, Intolerable Cruelty serves…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Eclipse Magazine (446) on 09 Oct 2003

Despite the film's conventional comedic material, we're still rooted firmly in Coen Brothers territory…

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By Jeffrey Westhoff (767) for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (767) on 09 Oct 2003

The Coens re-create the madcap dialogue of 1940s screwball comedies, particularly His Girl Friday…

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By Tiffany Sanchez (14) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 09 Oct 2003

Dark, offbeat, quirky material has long been a staple in the Coen's work, but here the dynamic duo have given it a commercial boost…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Fantastica Daily (363) on 09 Oct 2003

There are chuckles throughout, but it's not the biting, bizarre, black comedy one has come to expect from the Coen duo…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 09 Oct 2003

Better in its setup than in its resolution, Intolerable Cruelty nonetheless provides laughs and a fine comic performance from George Clooney…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 09 Oct 2003

Clooney and Zeta-Jones make for a glamorous couple, and there is enough chemistry between them that you might find yourself wondering if Michael…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 09 Oct 2003

[F]ull of a wit and a wickedness that's old-fashioned only in that there's not much like it to be found these days…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Oct 2003

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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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 09 Oct 2003

As he showed in O Brother, Where Art Thou…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 09 Oct 2003

The movie is a delicious, consistently hilarious screwball farce that gives Clooney his best comedy role to date and should finally, forever,…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 08 Oct 2003

Intolerable Cruelty is a romantic comedy, but it has enough dark, strange, and cynical moments to qualify as a full-fledged part of the Coen canon…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 08 Oct 2003

If it's not quite as funny as you want it to be, it's still more than enough to keep you entertained…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 08 Oct 2003

Intolerable Cruelty seems the kind of movie that results from two essentially erudite, anarchic talents playing down to the masses…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Madblast.com (6) on 08 Oct 2003

Intolerable Cruelty has more comic energy than five Woody Allens, eight Mel Brookses and 10 Farrelly Brothers. That's each brother…

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By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 08 Oct 2003

Rather than extending their talents in directions suggested by the excellently accessible The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for Critic Doctor (123) on 08 Oct 2003

The resulting film is pretty odd-there are numerous moments throughout that are identifiably Coenesque, I suppose, but it never really feels…

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By Jimmy O (287) for Film Snobs (370) on 08 Oct 2003

By turning marriage into a hunting sport and by making Clooney and Zeta-Jones the best on-screen couple of the year, the Coens make Intolerable…

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By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 08 Oct 2003

Watching this all play out is like snacking on meringue cookies and champagne: You'll certainly enjoy it, but you're likely to crave something…

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By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 08 Oct 2003

Had Clooney and Zeta-Jones been blessed with more lively, head-butting, memorably quotable give-and-take, Intolerable Cruelty could have been…

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