Fatal Attraction: Critic Reviews

86%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

81%

RottenTomatoes: 42 reviews

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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

80

Years hence, it will be possible to pinpoint the exact moment that produced Fatal Attraction, Adrian Lyne's new romantic thriller, and the precise circumstances that made it a hit.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Close should take pride in her performance. She should also expect a depressing avalanche of scripts requiring a she-wacko.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Hal Hinson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Fatal Attraction has an inescapable pull to it; it's suffocatingly exciting.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

Because the good things in the movie -- including the performances -- are so very good, it's a shame that the film's potential for greatness was so blatantly compromised.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

While billed as a romance and a thriller, the film strictly qualifies as neither, appealing to our prurience, guilt, hatred, and dread.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

The screws are tightened expertly in this suspenseful meller about a flipped-out femme who makes life hell for the married man who scorns her.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

[The film brings] horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Charles Cassady Common Sense Media

60

Adultery-obsession thriller isn't for kids (or bunnies).
Full Review » 2 years ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

80

a pure film for adults, and it manages to walk a tightrope between reprehensible behavior and business as usual
Full Review » 2 years ago
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

50

has the makings of a serious examination of adult relationships and interactions under duress, only to end as a seriocomic slasher film dictated by popular taste.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Ryan Cracknell Movie Views

An exceptionally well-written, well-acted and well-directed thriller that extends beyond the boundaries mainstream films typically set.
Full Review » 3 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

60

...remains a reasonably efficient thriller, building tension slowly and releasing it, if too melodramatically, at least excitingly.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rory L. Aronsky Screen It!

75

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Full Review » 4 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

80

Big, fat, juicy suspense.
Full Review » 4 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

75

This story of an extramarital fling that turns into a nightmare begins as a well-crafted psychological thriller but degenerates into a misogynistic thrill-fest in its closing moments.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

Close attention reveals plenty of flaws but for sheer heart-in-the-mouth excitement it remains a triumph.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

100

Full Review » 5 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

75

An extremely well-directed and acted (particularly by Glenn Close as the career woman) thriller that also functions as cautionary tale about sex in the swinging 1970s and parable of AIDS in the 1980s.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Time Out

A predictable dog's dinner of Pavlovian thriller cliches, this will appeal strongly to those who think women should be kept on a short lead.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS)

20

Full Review » 7 years ago
Nick Davis Nick's Flick Picks

80

The movie's sexual politics are a little acrid, but its construction is so persuasive and the lead performances so inspired that the film is hard to resist.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Gregory Weinkauf New Times

20

This movie is pretty stupid, really. I only felt for the rabbit.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

40

Full Review » 8 years ago