Conversations with Other Women 2006

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It can be tricky to watch both screens at once (Conversations With Other Women rewards multiple viewings), but it's invigorating to see a filmmaker exploring technique as metaphor. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The gimmick has its poetic moments, but the actors can't do much to make screenwriter Gabrielle Zevin's strategems for characters seem like real people. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is entertainment by and for adults. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Conversations with Other Women feels like a one-act play stretched into a feature film and padded with those visual gimmicks. Read more

Amelie Gillette, AV Club: Eckhart delivers a complicated performance, veering from aggressive to abashed, and stopping at puppy-eager, jealous, and conflicted along the way Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The charm of Conversations With Other Women, a gimmicky but oddly moving two-character drama that flies in from who knows where, is its intelligent knowingness. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: An intimate movie in every sense, Conversations With Other Women sets out to explore well-trammeled yet at the same time uncharted territory without grinding any axes. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The actors, who portray a reunion that is more sparring match than love fest, strike occasional sparks (but why must Carter always look so chalk white?). Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Though the movie is occasionally too clever-talky for its own good, it has the authentic ring of an elegy for love lost when one partner grows up while the other runs in place. Read more

David Thomson, The New Republic: I was hooked to the screen, to the film's sense of time and place and risk, to the intelligence of the talk and the intimations of pleasure and regret in Bonham Carter's performance. Read more

Stephen Williams, Newsday: By fade out, the movie has run out of air: the quick, clever dialogue flattens out and it becomes contrived. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The technique heightens the drama, illustrating how each character is in his or her own lonely little world. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Theirs is an affair not worth remembering. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Having been locked up in Burton's toy chest for so long, [Bonham Carter] is all the more dazzling in this wistful two-character infidelity drama. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The posturing twosome in the movie are themselves a compendium of stylish ticks in need of substantive redemption -- for once, the gimmick is a perfect reflection of the characters. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Mostly it works because this is about two people desperately trying to do the impossible: to reconcile the past with the present, reality with fantasy, and desire with responsibility. Read more

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Todd McCarthy, Variety: The battle of the sexes is restaged to clever but inconsequential effect in Conversations With Other Women. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The film ultimately becomes too contrived to be anything but a fleeting diversion, but kudos to these emerging filmmakers for daring to make something a little bit different and, for the most part, intriguing. Read more