Its Australian title, 'Adoration', sounds as flat on the tongue and unsure of itself as the actual film. Anne Fontaine never finds the right voice for her film's message and ends up with this disappointing, albeit handsomely made, effort.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 19, 2020

There's a fascinating depth to this challenging piece, even if you are laughing when you're not supposed to.

| Aug 23, 2019

As crazy as it may seem, it's a pretty compelling journey to watch.

| Aug 22, 2018

While Adore is based on some fairly salacious material, it tries to be an earnest drama examining the nature of friendship and lust and leaving convention behind. Unfortunately, Adore is a snore.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 3, 2017

Christopher Hampton's pared-back screenplay and Christophe Beaucarne's ravishing lensmanship locate the action in a reality that is only a blink away from the simmering landscape of the unconscious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2017

This film needed serious judgment: someone to rewrite the underwritten draft of the script and to have a firmer opinion on these terribly unappealing characters

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 19, 2014

There's more depth and feeling to the admittedly provocative premise of this twisted sexual drama than you might expect...It's the excoriating payoff to the story that makes Adoration a cautionary tale with a major sting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2013

The worst part of Adoration was when I returned to my car and had to pay for my parking, realising that the awfulness of the movie actually took a quantifiable toll on my life: 111 minutes, and $8.50.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 18, 2013

Viewed again, far from the madding crowd and general hoo-ha of Sundance, it stands up much better than expected.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 17, 2013

Their world seems to hover between their own fantasy and the castrated culture which Fontaine creates. A nothingness envelops them

| Nov 14, 2013

Melodramatic with a plot more suited to a 온라인카지노추천 soapie, Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Doris Lessing's 2003 novella The Grandmothers is overblown and totally unbelievable

| Nov 14, 2013

The film never musters the humor nor the sex appeal to carry off its study of ultra-Freudian arrested development.

| Nov 4, 2013

Adore is just completely absurd and melodramatic, where major things happen to our protagonists and they just brush it off.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2013

Fontaine has trouble balancing the complexities. Both women express a world of conflicting emotions in their gazes, but the younger men seem lost in their roles.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 17, 2013

Adore is nothing more than a hateful excuse for a piece of cinema. Avoid it at all costs.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 14, 2013

Watchable soapy melodrama enlivened by gorgeous photography and strong performances from all four leads ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2013

With its soap-operatic performances, bonkbuster plotline and sparkling seafront setting, all 'Adore' really lacks is a cameo from Alf Stewart

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2013

Would Fontaine have made this film if the mothers looked like and were as old as Barbra Streisand and Kathy Bates and the sons weren't built like surfers? Of course not.

| Oct 4, 2013

Sets the bar pretty low, and achieves its goal.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2013

'Adore' has received mostly negative reviews. The dismissiveness suggests a discomfort with the subject matter -- an unwillingness to process this particular fiction by writers who on other days grapple agreeably with haunted houses and singing chipmunks.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2013