GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Reno Rangan It is also known as 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits', which is the name of the book the film was adapted. According to me this is a very underrated film. Especially Natalie Portman was never seen before. This film was beautiful because of her. Might have been the same if any other actress who had played that role, but the thing is the character Emilia makes this story great. I would have given any top award the available around the globe for that incredible character display. It should have been recognised, sadly that did not happen because of the filthy film critics.Feels good watching it. This might not be a biographical film, but surely this is happening around us. The writing was so impressive. How the character Emilia was portrayed is the film's highlight. It was a simple character, that does not mean the life has to be simple as well. She falls in love with a married man and later she get married to him to become a step-mother to his child. That's where the problem arises when her baby dies in her arm, everybody points her for not being cautious with her step-son. This is a big task and how she comes out of it was revealed with lots of small twists and turns in the tale.Not just Natalie, but all the supporting cast was brilliant, including the husband, the kid and the ex. The story of loss, marriage, taking care a child and other struggles in life. Initially it did not look good with those affairs, but when it got past the half way mark, the rest of the film rebalanced the entire film. I liked how it ended. That final scene was very good. Even if you are an atheist, that end dialogues makes the major difference to favour the film. I haven't read the book, but seems the film was better than the book. Being a film fanatic and failing to recommending it to you would be a mistake. So I recommend it to particularly the grown-ups.8/10

SnoopyStyle Emilia Greenleaf (Natalie Portman) is the hated 2nd wife to Jack Woolf (Scott Cohen) in Manhattan. Her stepson William (Charlie Tahan) hates her. He keeps taking digs at her dead baby. She was a paralegal who had an affair with the married Jack. He divorced his doctor wife Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow) to marry her when she got pregnant. Carolyn had poisoned William's mind against Emilia. Just as Emilia has a good day with William, Jack tells her that Carolyn is pregnant.The kid is so annoying. I understand that he needs to be annoying but there is something extra problematic with the performance. It would be helpful for Tahan to show that he knows that he's doing harm but he's playing it very flat. He needs to smile or any emotion after breaking her down each time. He's playing this like Damien from The Omen. The audience needs to get inside of his mind. I don't need to like the kid but he needs to show that he's human. It may be unfair to ask for a master performance from a child actor but this role really needs it. Natalie Portman acts her brains out but I don't care about any of their relationships. This could be an interesting relationship movie about Emilia and William but it's not really there.

atlasmb "The Other Woman" is not just about a woman who happens to be "the other woman". In every broken relationship, each woman is the other woman to the other. The film centers around Emilia (Natalie Portman) the young second wife of Jack (Scott Cohen). Jack's son William by his first wife (Lisa Kudrow) is the linchpin that ties both sides of the dysfunctional "family" together.Complicating things are Emilia's feelings toward her father, who was unfaithful to her mother years ago, causing the breakup of their marriage. Also, Emilia and Jack's daughter had died in infancy.There is plenty of guilt and blame to go around in this drama where everyone struggles with his own demons. The early part of the film did not resonate with me much, but the story gets stronger as it develops. By the end, I found it very rewarding.It's a rather bleak story, where--true to life--people tend to lash out rather than seek an objective view of their own baggage. But it is worth watching. The acting is fine. Lisa Kudrow's performance stands out for me. Overall, this is a solid film that develops rather slowly, but feels true to life.

secondtake The Other Woman (2009)You might put up with this glaringly mediocre film by seeing how it deals with things that matter to ordinary people. Ordinary very rich people. It's about relationships, about wanting a child and having that go wrong, about taking care of someone else's child. It's about cheating and being in love and falling out of love. I mean, it's all good stuff.But the writing is routine to the point of deadening. The filming (photography) is either routine or it strives in little ways to be "interesting" by moving or gliding, but for no real reason except to keep it from being static. The acting is solid but unexceptional, including the main performance by a good Natalie Portman. The music is saccharine, at least against the backdrop of these events, as if trying to inflate them.Yes, this is an annoying movie if you pay attention to how it is made. If you are just watching for what happens, it's fine, but frankly just a bit boring. And besides Portman, the main star is, in some ways, the boy who is shuttled between parents and stepparents, and he's weirdly unsympathetic (on purpose). There are little moments that are meant to be intensely personal, and yet they seem like they're "meant" to do that. It doesn't emerge from events, or from character.Ugh. I know many people will see this and like a lot of it. Good! It's not on the surface too bad, I know that. But the more I watched the more it got under my skin like lice.