Unfaithful (2002) Critic Reviews

Despite the Gallic source material, what we truly have in Unfaithful is a tasteful, adult-contemporary ''Fatal Attraction'' redux, right down to the mister's Soho address and the happy family tucked away in the New York hinterlands.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

Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama.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

The good points about Unfaithful can't overcome the movie's eventual downward spiral.Read the full review

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

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

Ms. Lane has the role of her career in Connie, and her indelible (and ultimately sympathetic) performance is both archetypal and minutely detailed.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