This dark and dismal psychological exercise features two winning performances in a film that warrants excited discussion after its closing frames.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Highly intriguing and verbally thrilling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

Some final contextual cues hint that we shouldn't be so sure and suggest that Labute has something to say about ends justifying means.

| Nov 8, 2016

Some might view the end as a cruel prank at the expense of moviegoers while others might consider it a cop-out, but perhaps the point of it all is that we should not rush to judgment when it comes to Mr. LaBute's theater of cruelty.

| Oct 8, 2015

Some Velvet Morning is at best a missed opportunity and mercifully, a short one.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 7, 2014

The look of Some Velvet Morning remains clean and flat, the decor [is] mostly hotel-room neutral. The major visual idea is to have Eve's red dress and lipstick stand out against a monochromatic backdrop: effective in itself, but not enough.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 4, 2014

Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve waste their time and ours in a dreadful, boring two-hander about a man who leaves his wife for his much younger mistress.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Aug 1, 2014

It's a tantalising walk on the dark side and LaBute is the ultimate manipulator: I was enthralled, repulsed and intrigued, often feeling like a voyeur peering into a labyrinth of intimacies

| Jul 26, 2014

This cliché ridden film is a staggering disappointment: a morally offensive, done-on-the-cheap movie with a lifeless single location.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 24, 2014

There is that horrible climax and then the ridiculous twist that makes you go, oh, this was an even bigger waste of time than I already thought it was.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 24, 2014

One revelation leads to another, as well as the expected sexual confrontation, but then there's a moment of gentility, of grown-up understanding, and even, well, tenderness of a weird order. Desire, love? It's all transactional.

| Apr 7, 2014

...a massive disappointment...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2014

Fine acting aside, this is a story that should have remained untold.

| Original Score: 4.7/10 | Dec 20, 2013

With Some Velvet Morning, LaBute returns to the provocative style that made his name.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 20, 2013

Though LaBute wrote this for the screen, I mistakenly decided that it must have originated onstage... because the oblique, heavily freighted dialogue seems too elegant and artful for a medium dominated by hacks.

| Dec 19, 2013

You'll want to watch the film again immediately, and it will rattle around in your head for hours. If not longer.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 19, 2013

A sad example of what sometimes happens when a writer of gripping stage plays controls his own independent movie to his own selfish, labored self-satisfaction.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2013

I came away from this malevolent exercise with the sense that these two add up to little more than the sum of their awfulness.

| Dec 17, 2013

This smallest of films marks a welcome return to the world of interpersonal miniature for the writer-director. I hope he stays here a while.

| Dec 13, 2013

Anyone game to watch two effortlessly volatile and vulnerable performers trade barbs for 83 minutes ought to give this due consideration.

| Dec 13, 2013