Enduring Love

  • 2004


MOVIE IS unnerving dramatic enduring delicate intellectual
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59 % Rotten
$ 1 Million
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Positive Reviews 34
Negative reviews 12
Average Rating 3.2/5
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4.2
Michells achievement is all the greater in modulating the coiled reposes of his superb male leads. EW
3.8
Most movies remain at the top level of action: They are about what happens. A few consider the meaning of what happened, and even fewer deal with the .. Rogerebert
2.5
Michells screenplay retains the pretense of McEwans theories on love, biology, and everything in between, but the transplant is trite and messy.
4.5
The homosexual insinuation is one thing; but it seems theres more, really, that Jed wants and thats the truly disturbing part.
1.5
But theres something empty about an intellectual whos out of touch with himself and walks around thinking Its All Meaningless.
4.0
That doesnt make the film or the work of its very fine ensemble any less enjoyable. The New York Times
1.9
No film I can recall ever went from the highest highs to the lowest lows in the course of 90 minutes than Enduring Love. E Film Critic
3.8
But Roger Michell (Notting Hill) has done right by Enduring Love, McEwans haunting case study of a romantic obsession. San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
For all its sheen and suggestion of profundity, it winds up seeming a slasher movie with intellectual pretensions. One Guys Opinion
1.5
Razor walking self consciousness (or just plain braininess) is perhaps impossible to depict coherently on screen, and the someones watching me vibe is .. Village Voice
3.0
The filmmakers actually improve on McEwans novel, a rare achievement indeed. Tv Guide
1.9
After this promising start, the movie itself suddenly downturns and plummets to its own death. Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
A delicate story, intricately balancing its characters on a knife edge of compassion and obsession Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Samantha Mortons unfathomable face once more offers opportunity to want and imagine. Pop Matters
3.8
Even more disappointing is the movies paring away of important plot details. Cs Monitor
1.5
Enduring Love tries desperately hard to pull you in, but Joe Penhalls screenplay has the characters behaving in no way related to real life. Film Journal International ..
2.5
Roger Michells direction is stylish and achieves a fairly unsettling tone. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.2
A dramatic pic showing how an insane stalker turns about the life of a cynical professor. Internet Reviews
3.8
A weirdly mesmerizing ode to obsession, guilt, madness, death and love. Internet Reviews
2.5
And Craig, whos serious here, very lean, and very physical, makes the most of a fundamentally inane character. Boston
3.1
This drama about love, catastrophe and obsession raises a lot of questions but leaves it to viewers to provide most of the answers. Star Tribune
4.0
With a power that resonates, Enduring Love captures that sense of lives blown apart by a sudden gust. Toronto Star
4.0
The script explores love (obviously), fate and biology vs passion. Bbc
4.0
Were conditioned as romantics to hear the first word as an adjective; but for most of the movie, its strictly a harrowing verb. Calendar Live
2.8
Theres something flat and obscure about this well acted stalker movie/ Seattle Pi
1.5
There is conviction in Ifans performance; hes so insistent that Joe returns his love but just cant admit that even Joe starts to wonder if something d .. Pajiba
3.8
A statement of at once how little the world cares and how much we want it to. Film Freak Central
2.0
A frustrating film that abandons the promise of intrigue for something ultimately quite ordinary. Boxoffice Magazine
3.5
Director Roger Michell leaves it up to the audience to untangle the events, but by that time, the plot has taken a backseat to Craigs mesmerizing perf .. E Online
4.5
Expertly and with agonizing deliberateness, Michell ratchets up the tension among this appalling triangle. La Weekly
3.1
This Brit import has several things going for it, including the best 10 opening minutes of any movie weve seen this year. Kansas City
3.8
An actors movie, and the three leads give shatteringly honest performances. Sltrib
2.8
Enduring Love is better in parts than as a whole. Ultimately, the film has too many jagged edges. Guide Live
4.0
Enduring Love not only explores the nature and meaning of love, but fate, faith, science and chaos and it does so in an engrossing, intelligent and, u .. Jam! Movies
3.8
Though Ifans has the splashier role, Craig, last seen in Michells previous film, 2003s equally provocative The Mother, is outstanding as a man whose p .. Freep
4.5
Enduring Love at least until its final 20 minutes is considerably more intelligent and less sensationalistic than most thrillers of this type. James Sanford on Film
3.5
The premise may sound ordinary on the surface, but its far from a mundane thriller on the screen with its obsessions and paranoia and a very creepy st .. TheMovieChicks.com
1.5
The role of Claire is so thinly conceived that its hard to imagine what attracted one of the most consistently intriguing actresses working today to t .. IGN Movies
2.5
Novelist Ian McEwans elegant prose is replaced here with awkward pseudo philosophical exchanges of the nature of love. Film Forward
1.5
The whole film ... is not thrilling or moving; it is interesting, which is fine by me but will not make it a huge success. Archive Spectator
3.0
Michell finds a way of filming the balloon accident in such an unnerving manner that it hints at the psychological torrents that will ripple through t .. Patrick Nabarro
3.8
Wholly absorbing... subtly trapping us in the perspective of a beleaguered protagonist, who himself is trapped in an inchoate state of grief and fanta .. Nicks Flick Picks
2.5
One of those outrageous stalker thrillers in which so much trouble could have been avoided if the characters had only thought to call the police. Premiere Magazine
3.8
Daniel Craig gives a solid performance in the tradition of Hitchcocks wrong men. Reel Times: Reflections on ..
2.5
the intensity floats away like an out of control hot air balloon, which carries its passengers off into oblivion. Arizona Daily Star
4.5
Enduring Love is unsettling for both characters and audience, but offers three of the best character portrayals of the year. San Diego Metropolitan
3.1
A fatal lack of character development dooms Enduring Love as little more than a fleeting curiosity. Miami Herald
3.5
I was sorry when I learned that Michaels, the well known childrens hair cutting salon at Madison Avenue and 90th Street, went out of business recently .. Ny Observer
4.5
An intelligent albeit creepy adaptation of Ian McEwans novel, film excels beautifully thanks to some solid performances and a heady script.**
2.0
Ifans over the top performance is reminiscent of Glenn Closes knife wielding jilted lover in Fatal Attraction. World Film About
4.5
Love is a delicate thing, and identity even more so. Enduring Love breathtakingly tears both asunder to find them anew...it is, in a word, exquisite. Mixed Reviews
1.5
A tale of obsession with less hot air than your average thriller. Movie Gazette
1.3
If you dont have the range to play anything other than the same sort of comedic role as an over the top human oddity, maybe you shouldnt try to ply yo .. The Sly Fox Film Reviews B ..



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