One of the great cautionary tales in cinema, boasting an excellent performance by Roberts and a satisfying (if protracted) finale.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 21, 2024

Sleeping with the Enemy is an extremely over the top 'woman in peril' film that stars Julia Roberts' magnificent locks and Patrick Bergin's exquisite moustache. It's lurid, but this domestic abuse thriller holds up on a rewatch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 1, 2022

A melodramatic showdown...

| Sep 22, 2022

Roberts evokes sympathy, not just for playing the victim of an unforgivably bad husband, but for becoming the victim of an unforgivably bad movie.

| Jan 27, 2020

Spousal-abuse thriller has violence and language.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2017

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Sleeping With the Enemy is a flat tire of a movie. Looks good -- white sidewalls, chrome spokes -- but it flaps and clunks and never gets to vroom.

| Oct 18, 2008

...ultimately undone by a relentless emphasis on obvious and downright laughable elements that'll surely leave even the most ingenuous viewer sporadically rolling their eyes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2008

It's the sort of movie where all of the characters and plot moves (if one wants to call them that) are tailored to the thriller mechanics and have no existence apart from their crude functionality.

| Feb 8, 2008

Sleeping With the Enemy teeters constantly on the verge of silliness but director Joseph Ruben keeps the cornball melodrama scaled down to a pleasant lull.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2008

Roberts is terrific in a layered part. Anderson brings an edge to the nice-guy-next-door role, and the dark, dashing Bergin is chillingly twisted.

| Feb 8, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2007

Tacky.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2004