Intolerable Cruelty

Pros: George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Cons: A few scenes dragged a little

I started to see previews for Intolerable Cruelty a few months ago. I do like George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and the movie looked interesting to me. I was finally able to go see it and I did really enjoy it. Donovan Donaly...

Pros: Clooney in a kilt!
Cons: Hmm just a bit slow in a few parts.. not bad

Ooooh oooh ooooooooh! Those of you who read my reviews know I'm a sucker for a man in a kilt... I also have a crush on George Clooney (Solaris, W elcome to Collinwood, Three Kings). Who knew the two would come tog ...

Pros: Good supporting cast, clever script
Cons: Where's the chemistry?

I knew from the second that we tried to order tickets that I was going to have issues with Intolerable Cruelty. It starts with the title. Intolerable Cruelty. Try to say it three times fast. Heck, try to say it once fast. My friend and ...

Pros: The Santa Fe Tarts. The honeymoon suite at Caesar's in Vegas.
Cons: Script, story, the acting, lack of focus, and sheer grubbiness of the film. Feh.

I like romantic comedies. There's something rather charming about being able to find love, even in the most cynical of times. But in this film of Joel Coen's, this is a bitter, nasty film that has little to recommend it. Even if George Clooney ...

Pros: George and Catherine heat up the screen.
Cons: One or two scenes that dragged.

Me: Want to see a movie tonight? Him: Sure. What do you want to see? Me: Hmmm. What about Intolerable Cruelty? Him: Okay. That doesn't seem like your kind of movie though. Me: Why? Him: It's the Coen brothers dear. Me: Oh. Well it's ...

Pros: Great acting, funny script
Cons: Sincere sincerity among the insincere is sincerely a tough sell

Meet Miles Massey, Divorce attorney extraordinaire, keynote speaker at N.O.M.A.N. (the national association for divorce attorneys). Mr. Massey is so successful that they teach classes based on his work and his (near patented) Massey prenuptual agreement ...

Pros: Looks great, particularly the stars, Clooney and Zeta-Jones, often quite funny
Cons: Stops being inventive much too early

It's only sortta an insult to venture the suggestion that Intolerable Cruelty may possibly be the worst movie the Coen Brothers have ever made. After all, working in tandem, Joel and Ethan have had a fairly remarkable track record of making smart, ...

Pros: Entertaining parable about life in America from the Coen brothers
Cons: Tone at the climax gets a bit heavy

"Intolerable Cruelty" is a parable from the Coen brothers about life in America. Their movie takes a look at how much money is enough to live comfortably. George Clooney stars as Miles Massey, a feared and revered California divorce attorney who's made a ...

Pros: Zany, plotty scenario. Sharp satirical insights into the Law's nature. Clooney, Zeta-Jones, supporting cast.
Cons: The Coens' characteristic coolness takes some of the warmth out the film, latterly.

Successful TV Producer Donovan Donaly (Geoffrey Rush), pony tail flowing in the breeze, happily mouthing the words to a Paul Simon song on the stereo, is buzzing up the winding terraced boulevards of the Hollywood Hills in his little blue sports car. ...

Pros: George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, lots of quirky dialouge and laughs
Cons: The romantic comedy element isn't taken very seriously.

You may not believe it (or, maybe you will), when I say that I haven’t been to a movie theater in the past year. It isn’t so much that I don’t have any time for it, but just that I’m so used to renting what I want to at the video store, that I don’t se ...

Pros: supporting cast, Catherine Zeta-Jones' wardrobe
Cons: script, comedic moments not funny, predictable

The trouble with comedy based around a specific subject, is that there are times when the subject just isn’t funny to some people. I enjoy a dark comedy, but for some reason, the off-beat dark comedy of the Coen Brothers in Intolerable ...

Pros: great acting; hilarious story and dialogue
Cons: not for everyone

If one out of every two marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, here's a movie half the country can relate to. And the other half are sure to crack up at it anyway. From the Coen Brothers, directors of Fargo and The Big Lebowski, comes Intolerable ...

Pros: Great ensemble of actors
Cons: BORING!!!!!

Somewhere between the ho-hum script, the (just) okay directing, the tolerable acting and the editing Intolerable Cruelty lost its allure and put me to sleep. Despite the now legendary writing and directing talents of the Coen Brothers, the ...

Pros: outstanding acting, original story and amazing plot twists
Cons: the average viewer might not appreciate the irreverent style of this comedy.

As a critic I hate it when a film has a lot of plot twists because it makes it so difficult to write a review for people who haven’t seen it. It’s even worse when the flick is GOOD, because if it were bad it would be easy to point to those plot ...

Pros: Some Coenesque touches, supporting cast
Cons: Story, not much to the leads, use of supporting cast

For perpetual movie geeks, we salivate at the prospect of an upcoming movie from a certain favorite director. For a guy like Martin Scorcese or Quentin Tarantino, we're expecting all sorts of things to back up their auteur status. So when it comes to the ...