A profound study of lack of communication in a marriage with some great performances from Scott, Davis, and Leary.

| Apr 29, 2009

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2004

Retrata com sensibilidade o cotidiano de uma família em crise e representa mais uma prova dos talentos de Scott e Davis.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2004

One of those quietly brilliant indies, so small in scope that it takes a little extra attention to appreciate how deeply it plunges into its characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2004

The Secret Lives of Dentists is a provocative title, promising much more than this domestic melodrama is able to deliver.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2004

...[T]he potency is abrogated by Rudolph's indulgent pretension of including Scott's personified conscience in the form of an obstreperous patient...

| Original Score: C | Dec 31, 2003

Rudolph's fondness for angular, oblique characterization is ideally suited to the movie's incidental story of sublimated feelings and contradictory impulses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2003

Domestic scenes with the kids are drawn with letter-perfect naturalism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2003

Funny but not a comedy, slow but not plodding, narrow in scope but not uninteresting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2003

For me (unlike some critics who have embraced this film), Leary becomes so persistent, so grating and so bloody irritating that I want to scream: Stop the madness! End the pain!

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 14, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2003

Refuses to chuck us under our chins and tell us everything is OK.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2003

[Campbell Scott gives] a brilliant performance, with hints of humor, rage and agony all lurking around the edges.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 14, 2003

There are movies that have a way of hitting you at a certain time in your life, and this study of being married with young children speaks in satisfying ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2003

The sly, little irony of The Secret Lives of Dentists is that their lives are pretty much the same as your typical accountant, electrician or secretary. And most likely, your life as well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2003

It's often been said that we don't really know people, that we don't know what goes on in other people's marriages, no matter how intimate we may be with them. With this film, Rudolph sneaks us a peak.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2003

The material is just thoughtful enough and the performances just effective enough for the whole thing to work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2003