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Janet Maslin, New York Times: Tespite the glossiness, it winds up seeming profoundly uneventful, perhaps because the car crash is the story's only real dramatic turn. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Stone deserves some points for playing a recognizable human being while Davidovich fares less well in an underscripted part, but what sabotages the story altogether is Gere's boundless narcissism. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The concept sounds reasonable until the characters start reciting some truly dumb dialogue. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The only thing these characters have to talk about are the problems manufactured for them by the screenplay. No other conversations on any other subject amount to more than filler between crises. Read more
Time Out: Less neurotic and sexually charged than usual, Gere digs deep to find the source of his character's chronic indecisiveness. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: This very loose adaptation (acknowledgement of the sources is buried in the end credits) attempts to goose things up here and there, but original's essentially meditative nature is left quite unfulfilled by the new approach and glamour cast. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Please stop me when you care. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Should he as an incredibly wealthy architect go back to his wife, Sharon Stone, or stay with his mistress, Lolita Davidovich? It's a question that ranks up there on the suspense-o-meter with "Paper or plastic?" Read more