- 7
...quirky but entertaining...
—Ryan Stewart Premiere
- 7
...a period comedy of manners merged with a suspenseful psychological thriller...
—Stephen Holden New York Times
- 7
...feels stiflingly mannered and generic when it should be percolating with emotion.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 7
...has more on its mind, manifest in the arch elegance of the plot...
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 7
...if you get 51 and are amused by how the missing card was made to vanish, this may be a movie to your liking.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
...everything hangs on the ending in this kind of movie, and Married Life doesn't have one. Just when things should be boiling over, the script goes lukewarm.
—Kyle Smith New York Post
- 6
...though it's a perfectly presentable effort, he [Sachs] lacks the passion and the radical vision of the filmmaker to whom he owes his biggest debt [who is Todd Haynes].
—Ella Taylor Village Voice
- 6
...feels very much like a film from a different era -- a fact that's mostly enjoyable, with a few minor exceptions.
—Matt McKillop filmcritic.com
- 6
...though it's a perfectly presentable effort, he [Sachs] lacks the passion and the radical vision of the filmmaker to whom he owes his biggest debt [who is Todd Haynes].
—Ella Taylor LA Weekly
- 6
A faltering attempt at black comedy mixed with romantic melodrama...
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 5
What starts as a dark comedy that plays like a film noir, or a film noir that plays as a dark comedy, detours into a melodramatic comedy of manners and ends up confused.
—Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times
- 3
...beautiful in every respect, and its murder plot carries a low-key excitement. But its pleasures are all coldly intellectual.
—Tasha Robinson Chicago Tribune