George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones manage to elevate the Coens' underrated Intolerable Cruelty through their performances and chemistry.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 24, 2023

Just when you think you have a handle on how this story is going to unfold, the Coens toss another massive curveball that throws you for a loop yet again.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 29, 2023

Whatever Intolerable Cruelty lacks in the Coens' usual visual richness, it is replaced with slick plotting, attractive stars, and riotous humor.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2022

The standout by far is Catherine Zeta-Jones, who maintains such a casual aloofness throughout that it isn't hard to see why Miles is so taken with her. Marilyn's con is long, but it's worth it.

| Mar 19, 2021

A vastly underrated Coen Brothers confection.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2021

Intolerable Cruelty by the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, is a more consistent and pleasing work, concerning the state of American marriage and divorce among the moneyed.

| Feb 15, 2021

A bland studio comedy with some genuinely terrific bits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2020

Glitz, glamour, comedy and Clooney and [
Catherine] Zeta-Jones. Undeniably the funniest and most romantically funny comedy of the year.

| Nov 8, 2019

These stars not only light up the screen, they generate enough electricity to light up Times Square. Movies just don't get better.

| Original Score: A | Jan 5, 2018

Screwball comedy for older teens and adults.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people.

| Oct 13, 2009

A competent bit of work from which striking originality and idiosyncrasy have mostly been pruned away.

| May 6, 2008

The Coens do an efficient job of stamping their signature grotesquerie on sumptuous Beverly Hills and Las Vegas settings and ladling on gallows humor and malice, sometimes with the verve of early Robert Zemeckis.

| Nov 7, 2007

This is the Coens dabbling in the mainstream, and bending it to their will.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 24, 2007

The Coensâ(TM) first mainstream romantic comedy is a superb hijacking of an ailing art form -- short, sharp and frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

As Miles, Clooney doesn't make any direct emotional appeal to the audience and yet his high style is so smashingly effective that Miles stands open to us: macher, lover, patsy.

| Sep 26, 2006

Inventive and hilarious.

| Feb 9, 2006

Destined to rank among the Coens' least memorable achievements.

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

A great movie.

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005