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Unfaithful Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    63

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Though it is difficult to take Unfaithful as seriously as it takes itself, on its own terms it's quite well done.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    Ms. Lane has the role of her career in Connie, and her indelible (and ultimately sympathetic) performance is both archetypal and minutely detailed.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    That's what's intriguing about the film: Instead of pumping up the plot with recycled manufactured thrills, it's content to contemplate two reasonably sane adults who get themselves into an almost insoluble dilemma.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    This refitting of Claude Chabrol's 1968 classic "La Femme Infidele" is less concerned with suspense and dramatic fireworks than is the usual American "erotic thriller," and much more devoted to nuances and the minutiae of how men and women behave, pretend and lie in duplicitous situations.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    Unfaithful doesn't push the melodrama the way "Attraction" did, but it lingers in the mind as much.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    All the accolades Lyne got for "Fatal Attraction" -- and didn't really merit -- he deserves here.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Meticulously crafted and beautifully performed.

  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

not for kids

Not for kids, but some adults will like it.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie contains a number of elements that may be upsetting to children. The theme of infidelity runs through the movie, and it creates some tense scenes of home life. Connie's seduction is quite overwhelming, and the sex scenes are intense and graphic. There is also one pretty violent scene.

  • Families can talk about the title. The film is symmetrical -- the wife is unfaithful in the first half, the husband in the second. To whom is the husband unfaithful? What "happens" in their final conversation? What is forgivable?

The good stuff
  • message true0

    Messages: Not an issue

What to watch for
  • violence false3

    Violence: One graphic violent confrontation.

  • sex false5

    Sex: Intense and graphic sex scenes; adultery.

  • language false3

    Language: Strong language.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking.

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