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End of the Affair, The (1999) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give End of the Affair, The (1999) a score of 2.8011 out of 4

based on (148) reviews

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Excellent

(18)

Very Good

(102)

Good

(26)

Fair

(2)

Poor

(0)

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Entertainment Today (Brent Simon)

Neil Jordan's film captures an unyielding sense, even almost to a fault, of romantic realism and its often underlying sadness....read the complete End of the Affair, The (1999) review at Entertainment Today (Brent Simon)

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Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)

Based on the novel by Graham Greene, set in 1946 London. Maurice is a struggling novelist who meets Henry, a man now married to his ex-lover Sarah. The two former lovers discover that they are still in love with each other Maurice's love is a suffocating ...read the complete End of the Affair, The (1999) review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)

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Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

About halfway through I began to imagine it as it might have been directed by Douglas Sirk as a vehicle for Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson....read the complete End of the Affair, The (1999) review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

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James Sanford

There's an old British saying, "in for a penny, in for a pound," which applies perfectly to "The End of the Affair," a demanding, thought-provoking film adapted from Graham Greene's novel of the same name. It's a movie built around a theme many will...read the complete End of the Affair, The (1999) review at James Sanford