Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

ambimom I love Debra Winger and lament the fact of her too few performances over the past few years. She was the reason I watched this dreck of a movie. It makes no sense whatsoever. Why didn't they admit to each other their dalliances? What was all the secrecy for? And the ending...all I can say is, as predictable as it was given the foregoing plot, oi vey is mere. The direction was watching ketchup flow, the writing was absurd bearing no relation to actual human behavior in the circumstance of boredom in marriage.

euroGary Debra Winger will forever be Wonder Girl to me, but of course she has assembled a comprehensive body of work since that early role back in the 1970s. One of her latest projects is 'The Lovers', in which she plays Mary, the distaff half of a middle-aged couple whose marriage seems to be on its last legs. Mary and her husband Michael (Tracy Letts) are perfectly civil to each other, but both are having affairs with younger people. A visit by their college student son Joel (Tyler Ross) seems as if it will provide the catalyst for a split, but then the unexpected happens: Mary and Michael fall back in love...Winger does a lot of 'face acting' in this: much posing of the eyebrows. Unfortunately this makes it seem more like she is puzzling over a particularly difficult crossword clue than mourning the break-up of her decades-old marriage. Letts is more impressive, even if, every time I looked at him, I thought of John Lithgow. As Joel, Ross merely has to say "fuck" a lot. (Also, in one scene he punches through a wall, but his punch sounded more like a gentle love-tap - that house must be made of cardboard!)While it is fitting - in the portrayal of a couple who have been together for decades - to say a lot without words, there are times when this film takes the concept too far: for instance, it is unclear just how much Mary and Michael know about each other's 'secret' lives; certainly when confronted by Michael's 'other woman' Mary is upset, but does not seem surprised. The eventual decision to split is also arrived at with hardly any discussion - I actually thought the showing I attended at the 2017 London Film Festival had left out a couple of scenes! Nonetheless, the film is good fun, was enjoyable to watch once and I shall probably watch it again.

asc85 The critics loved this movie, and the premise seemed funny...a married couple who are both cheating on each other, rekindle their romance, and "cheat" on their lovers! Unfortunately, none of the promise of this plot was ever realized. The first half hour is excruciatingly slow, with hardly anything at all happening. Towards the end, when their adult child and his girlfriend come to visit them, it's not bad. But then everything falls apart, and the cheating husband gets on the house piano, and sings a song about love. Really. Tracy Letts, who I used to like in Homeland, is way out of his league in this movie. It's interesting to see Debra Winger after all these years, but she does nothing to make this role "her own." Dozens of actresses her age could have played that part, and we wouldn't have seen any difference. All in all, you'd be wise to skip this one. I sure wish I did.

anthonyjlangford A middle age couple are in the throes of an affair. Both of them.The subtleties of a middle age relationship will be wasted on the young. Having read the negative reviews here, there's no doubting the reviewer's age. They've completely missed the point. That's fine. It's not for them. I may have felt the same way, once.For everyone else, this is subtle, poignant, witty, truthful and very funny. It takes you to places you expect, in a natural but charming way and then surprises you. It's a very delicate balance, pulled off beautifully by writer and director. And what a superb cast. All four of the main parts are played to perfection. These are no hacks. A top notch class act. The Lovers is a wonderfully fresh film for a mature audience. About time.