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Intolerable Cruelty (2003)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Steve Murray "It's neither cruel nor intolerable, but Intolerable Cruelty is the least interesting of all the Coen brothers' movies." more... C   Boston Globe Wesley Morris "Coens' Cruelty has comedic court appeal." more... B   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Plots like this have fueled lovely screwball comedies, and Intolerable Cruelty is in the genre, but somehow not of it." more... B- Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "Screwball comedy is a matter of characters, style, pace and great lines; Intolerable Cruelty has them all." more... A- Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "...surprisingly light-hearted..." more... B   E! Online "...the overly cartoonish direction of Clooney's character and the sanitary-studio feel of the film keep the whole thing from working happily ever after." more... B- filmcritic.com Christopher Null "...it's so Hollywood-conventional as to make its existence puzzling at best, unnecessary at worst." more... B- Hollywood Reporter Jean Oppenheimer "The Coen brothers go Hollywood and end up with a throw-away farce instead of a sparkling romantic comedy." more... C   New York Post Megan Lehmann "...giddy, corrosively funny matrimonial farce..." more... A- New York Times Elvis Mitchell "...an intelligent, modern screwball comedy..." more... A- ReelViews James Berardinelli "Rarely has strife between the sexes been so ruthless, so civilized, and so funny." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Near the end of this smart, speedy romantic farce, the comic engine hits a wall and sputters." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein "Two-thirds through, Intolerable Cruelty shifts to Las Vegas and runs out of steam..." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...a delicious, consistently hilarious screwball farce..." more... A- USA Today Claudia Puig "...a deliciously good time..." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)