Wilkinson, returning to meatier fare after Batman Begins and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, gives one of the most complex performances of his career, and the leads are ably assisted by Linda Bassett...

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A solidly made but strangely lightweight drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2005

Julian Fellowes is two for two.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2005

It's as grown-up as a movie can get, with a fine cast in a strongly crafted tale about the calamities that can wreck a relationship and the love that can redeem it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

As a very British film about very British personalities, class differences and attitudes, it's just about perfect.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2005

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 15, 2005

The deceptions of Separate Lies are so uniquely and recognizably human they become a cautionary warning to us all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2005

The characters shift positions and explanations, presenting their 'separate lies' in a manner that ultimately adds up to an ugly truth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2005

A tight little film that's so painfully civil it makes you want to slap the characters around, which may be the point.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 14, 2005

As always, Fellowes has a pitch-perfect ear for British diction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2005

This morally ambiguous tale of dangerous liaisons and bewildering choices amounts to one of the year's most intriguing dramas.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 13, 2005

Although the characters might seem controlled, Wilkinson and Watson ... lend realism to the roles, and we believe they could be a married couple.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 13, 2005

Fellowes has brought intelligence and control to the eternally vexing question of whether the right thing is always the good thing.

| Oct 7, 2005

A film with a lot to say about the human condition.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2005

No one in the film seems to be thinking with a brain or emoting with a heart, so most of the decisions seem random.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 7, 2005

It's the subtle, tricky ways in which Fellowes subverts the expected -- and unexpected -- in this high-end domestic thriller that make the film so much dark, roiling fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2005

Mixed but affecting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2005

The movie is not so much about the solution to this crime, as about the ethics involved in taking responsibility.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2005