A dark, delusional piece of sultry fantasia that doesn’t condemn or condone Connie or Ed’s choices. It simply presents people surprised by the ease with which they transgress and allow little white lies to fester into gigantic, tumorous deceptions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2023

Diane Lane anchors the movie: she plays real and she looks real, with just enough lines and hints of wrinkles; a beautiful woman who's been distracted by too many school runs and charity committees.

| Jan 29, 2018

A film at once romantic and sensual and agonizing.

| Aug 16, 2017

...an erratically-paced and distinctly overlong drama that nevertheless manages to pack a punch here and there...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2017

This is a great movie, and so many of the things being written about it are just plain FACTUALLY wrong.

| Oct 18, 2016

Not for kids, but some adults will like it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Works precisely because it is so upsetting, unusually so for a studio film, and so empathetic for Connie at the hands of her attractive manipulator. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Unfaithful is not so much about the conventions of a typical bored housewife falls for exotic foreigner with disastrous results story, but in fact plumbs the depths of what really constitutes intimacy, and how complacency, rather than the melodramatic ups

| Jul 2, 2008

[Diane Lane] is more than enough reason to see "Unfaithful."

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Much subtler than Lyne's previous forays into the world of infidelity, and the film is the better for it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2006

The outstanding performances help smooth over the plot devices.

| May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 7, 2004

| Original Score: 66/100 | Mar 16, 2004

Gere is convincing in a role that he most likely would have not taken even five years ago.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2003

Devolves...from bland diversion into some truly unsettling sexual politics, and tumbles from that already low plateau into an ersatz In the Bedroom.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 19, 2003