Worth seeing just for the performances. Mark Rylance may be the most gifted English-language actor of his generation.

| May 2, 2024

Intimacy benefits from cinematographer Eric Gautier's brilliant use of a handheld camera and imaginative wide-screen compositions. The threat of bathos is also kept at bay by the assured performances.

| Sep 29, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Chereau's first English-speaking feature, based on Hanif Kureishi's stories, is a bold, full-frontal (literally) exploration of the mysteries of male and female sexual desire. As such, the audacious film will divide film critics and get NC-17 rating

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Pulsates with desperate, miserable passion.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 5, 2005

It's ironic that a film exploring the mysteries of how people succeed and fail to connect with each other then fails to really connect with its audience.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2002

I'm sure Chereau meant this to be a searing portrait of psychic distance, and it certainly is bleak. What it is not, unfortunately, is riveting cinema.

| Oct 21, 2002

It's a brave art film only because of its porno sex scenes, but it is not necessarily a perceptive one.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 25, 2002

It's a frighteningly realistic look at completely passionless sex, and Fox and Rylance both do a good job of making us uncomfortable as we watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | May 16, 2002

There is an interesting story here, but the movie circles it at a distance.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 26, 2002

Rylance and Fox, fine actors, bravely grapple through some astonishingly convincing copulation (did they or didn't they?), and even more bravely struggle with Chereau's unspeakable lines.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2002

For all the sex and vicious psychological game-playing, Chereau's movie is strangely forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

The sexual content diverts attention away from what is some very powerful acting by the film's talented cast.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2002

A film with a few floundering moments that becomes a powerful description of what it means to be intimate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2002

Its unflinching attitude toward sex is only weakened by the lack of enjoyment that the characters seem to have while actually having sex.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 5, 2002

Contains no great revelations, but a lot of outstanding performances.

| Jan 29, 2002

Despite this shortcoming, Intimacy takes us places very few films have, and the central performances are excellent.

| Jan 25, 2002

Porno for the squatter set.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2002