Intolerable Cruelty

"In its nasty, blackhearted take on contemporary coupling and uncoupling, Intolerable Cruelty has the distant though unmistakable ring of truth."

"George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones square off deliciously, but this '30s-style battle of the sexes from the Coen brothers never catches fire."

"(Clooney has) never been looser, sexier, or more antic."

"So clever, so funny, so suavely entertaining that it comes as a shock to realise that it's not nearly as satisfying as all those qualities would lead you to believe."

"Sometimes you just want (The Coens) to lay off the irony and climb down here with the groundlings."

"To see Clooney... is to see an old-fashioned virtuoso in perpetual motion."

"(Clooney's) portrait of a shark in love is a model of classy comic acting."

"A witty and sparkling royal flush of a film."

"Fabulous, screwy comedy, lit up by some blinding star wattage."

"Intelligent, modern screwball comedy"

"A date-movie with brain cells."

"The Coens' first mainstream romantic comedy is a superb hijacking of an ailing art form - short, sharp and frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious."