[The Business of Strangers] is best when the women join forces to take down a smarmy headhunter, make lewd lesbian sex jokes, and talk in the kind of theatrically intense dialogue rarely found in films these days.

| May 25, 2022

A tense chamber-piece.

| Feb 25, 2020

[A]n uncomfortably suspenseful tale - [cast] with two immensely capable and powerful actresses - of a game of power and control played between two women in a realm film only too rarely lets women roam in: the political swamp of the corporate world.

| Nov 19, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

An uneven satire of the corporate world, Stettner's movie is inspired by LaBute's superior In the Company of Men, changing the gender of the protags into female execs on the opposite side of the spectrum.

| Original Score: C+ | May 10, 2006

Channing gives a marvelously chilling performance.

| Original Score: B | Jan 9, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

What The Business of Strangers really boils down to is a couple of good performances and some really interesting dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2003

In that millisecond glower is all the fear, frustration, pent-up emotion, aggression and pure unadulterated self-loathing imaginable and it says volumes about where Strangers is heading.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2003

If The Business of Strangers clunks as a whole, at least several of its parts offer momentary pleasures.

| Original Score: C | Mar 19, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2003

'The Business of Strangers' partners one of Hollywood's most under-rated older actresses with arguably one of its most over-rated younger ones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2003

This is a stunning examination of issues of doubt and control, as well as a cracking good little thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 78/100 | Sep 21, 2002

[A] critique of embittered p.c. extremism...but Stettner can't restrain his yuppie-clan feminists from descending into misogynous caricatures.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2002

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 8, 2002

Patrick Stettner's female workplace drama has nowhere to go but down once its cards have been thrown down on the table

| Aug 5, 2002

Stettner's vision of both women lacks fullness, relying on stereotypes of feminine strength and vulnerability.

| Aug 5, 2002