The Other Man 2008

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Neeson, in particular, has to rumble through the movie behaving in a way consistent with the ending and comes off as far over the top in the process. Read more

A.O. Scott, At the Movies: It owes its air of mystery to a piece of narrative trickery that's both obnoxiously manipulative and insultingly obvious. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: It's a decent adult drama that should keep you guessing. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The result is B-grade cheese. The only genuine mystery, for me, is why such a fine cast signed on for such a witless movie. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Before long, the characters, which director Richard Eyre adapted from a Bernhard Schlink short story, cease to be people and start to become devices. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: A supposedly grown-up drama like The Other Man ought to have scruples about where it plans to take you. Trickiness for its own sake is simply a cheat. Read more

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Rex Reed, New York Observer: Despite the gimlet eye of Richard Eyre, former director of England's Royal National Theatre, and the top-echelon talents of an impressive cast, a dreary, disabled disaster called The Other Man drops dead at the starting gate. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: The screen version of Bernhard Schlink's short story The Other Man does not deliver. The secret at the heart of the film, after all the fractured narrative convolutions, is anti-climactic, and the conclusion is strained and awkward. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: The promising intrigue of a husband's bullheaded obsession with his wife's lover falls flat in The Other Man, directed with an indifferent hand by Richard Eyre. Read more

Ella Taylor, Village Voice: It hurts to see a terrific cast (including the lovely and intelligent young Irish actress Romola Garai as the couple's quietly seething daughter) squandered on such dreary filmmaking. Read more