Unfaithful (2002) Critic Reviews

It's that rare kind of movie that comes along only a handful of times each year -- gut-level entertainment that's oddly profound.Read the full review

Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama.Read the full review

Lane is a force of nature. Her slow-burning, fiercely erotic performance charges the movie.Read the full review

Meticulously crafted and beautifully performed.Read the full review

Unfaithful doesn't push the melodrama the way "Attraction" did, but it lingers in the mind as much.Read the full review

This refitting of Claude Chabrol's 1968 classic "La Femme Infidele" is less concerned with suspense and dramatic fireworks than is the usual American "erotic thriller," and much more devoted to nuances and the minutiae of how men and women behave, pretend and lie in duplicitous situations.Read the full review

That's what's intriguing about the film: Instead of pumping up the plot with recycled manufactured thrills, it's content to contemplate two reasonably sane adults who get themselves into an almost insoluble dilemma.Read the full review

Trashy enough to envelop its sex scenes in aerobicized glamour (a Lyne trademark), so the fact that it takes itself so seriously almost counts as a daring move.Read the full review

Though it is difficult to take Unfaithful as seriously as it takes itself, on its own terms it's quite well done.Read the full review