Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2009

Everyone seems as if they're going through the motions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2009

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.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2009

Despite the cast, which is very good, you never feel like they're really taking on a life of their own.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2009

It owes its air of mystery to a piece of narrative trickery that's both obnoxiously manipulative and insultingly obvious.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2009

It's a decent adult drama that should keep you guessing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2009

The sexual temperature remains a safe, nap-inducing 98.6.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2009

The film is filled with good-on-paper moments that build up and slowly tighten like a knot but usually end in a whimper.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 10, 2009

The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 9, 2009

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.

| Sep 8, 2009

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 3, 2008

Seldom has such great star power been marshaled in the service of a sillier movie than The Other Man.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2008

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.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2008