The director, Paul Mazursky, has gathered a superbly balanced cast and kept the action so smooth that the viewer is carried along on a tide of mystical slyness.

| Sep 12, 2023

Enemies is overall a brilliant film, but its brilliance stems from its atmosphere, fotography, and marvelously evocative music. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 3, 2022

The anti-hero of "Enemies, a Love Story" may be smart, smart and stupid; but the movie is smart, smart and smart.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 1, 2021

Loosely constructed and at times enigmatic, but rich in characterization, texture, mood, tone and meaning.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 1, 2021

It's a brave effort on Mazursky's part; although the movie is too long, it does occasionally achieve an unsettling blend of humor and pathos that the director strove for.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2021

For all his sincerity, Mazursky has ironed out Singer's wicked delight in the ambiguities and frailties of the human psyche, and turned the story into mere burlesque.

| Aug 1, 2021

Mazursky and his co-writer, Roger Simon, have done a difficult adaptation job well, concentrating disparate elements of humour, sex and despair into a tragicomedy of unusual depth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2021

Clearly it's the best of Mazursky's career. But it's something more, the brilliant dovetailing of a writer's intentions and a film maker's mature craft.

| Aug 1, 2021

Thanks to a superb cast, much of the complexity and nearly all the poignancy of Singer's conception is well served.

| Jan 16, 2020

Enemies offers a giddy ride that ultimately goes nowhere.

| Oct 11, 2019

Haunting, mordantly amusing, deliciously sexy...

| Mar 26, 2009

A bravura performance by Ron Silver

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2009

With its focus on complex dialogue and rich, complicated characters, Enemies, a Love Story ... is every inch an actor's movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Mazursky conveys emotion without manipulation, sensitively distilling despair and self-hatred, but lifting the mood with dark humour.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2005

Arguably Mazursky's last successful film, this adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer of a Holocaust survivor and the women in his life blends humor and pathos and is extremely well acted by Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 22, 2003

In a story with so much potential for sentimentality and broad bedroom farce, it is surprising that there is none of either.

| May 20, 2003