New York Post

It's brilliant work.

New York Post by Kyle Smith

It's brilliant work.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

The entire film is shot in split screen. Each of the unnamed characters is photographed separately in their own slice of space, the images sutured together with a purposeful imperfection, with occasional overlap and rare moments of union. It gives them the appearance of dancing around one another, almost touching but never getting past the years of emotional scar tissue, even as they work their way to her hotel room.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

I found the film powerfully erotic, although it has minimal nudity and no explicit sex.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

The fine acting and sexy chemistry between Bonham Carter and Eckhart make it work.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

The charm of Conversations With Other Women, a gimmicky but oddly moving two-character drama that flies in from who knows where, is its intelligentknowingness.

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

Conversations is well-calculated and well-ordered, and it manages an equilibrium that a science lab would envy.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen

For once, the gimmick is a perfect reflection of the characters.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

A smart, sexy romantic drama, directed within an inch of its life by Hans Canosa.

Village Voice

Though the movie is occasionally too clever-talky for its own good, it has the authentic ring of an elegy for love lost when one partner grows up while the other runs in place.

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

An intimate movie in every sense, Conversations With Other Women sets out to explore well-trammeled yet at the same time uncharted territory without grinding any axes. What it offers is a modest fantasy that will be familiar to contemporaries of Bonham Carter and Eckhart especially. It's sad and funny, satisfying and frustrating, totally familiar.

Village Voice by Ella Taylor

Though the movie is occasionally too clever-talky for its own good, it has the authentic ring of an elegy for love lost when one partner grows up while the other runs in place.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

The actors, who portray a reunion that is more sparring match than love fest, strike occasional sparks.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

None of it is quite believable -- the film is too studied, too forward in its conceits to be entirely satisfying -- but Mr. Eckhart and Ms. Bonham Carter approach their roles with intelligence and conviction.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

The battle of the sexes is restaged to clever but inconsequential effect in Conversations With Other Women. Very much a case of old wine in a new bottle.

The Hollywood Reporter

That the movie holds viewers' attention despite its contrivances is a testament to the script and acting.

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

In the end, the problem with Conversations with Other Women is not that it pulls an ordinary romance into unfamiliar shapes but that it doesn't pull far enough. It may be dotted with fine observations, yet somehow the charm of its novelty grows stale, and the airless feeling of a closed set begins to fester.