See it especially for Natalie Portman and Mike Nichols

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2005)

I liked the performances in 'Closer'. Not so much from leads Jude Law and Julia Roberts but from supporting players Clive Owen and especially the very Oscar worthy Natalie Portman. She ate up the screen with her sexy, smart and deep performance as a young woman trying to find herself. When you upstage the other three leads in this film, you've done something special. Young beauty and brains don't come along too often these days but when they do, they deserves major recognition. Mike Nichols carefully makes sure all the performances intersect in just the right synchronization like his directorial debut in 1966 with 'Who's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?'. Working with what is essentially a four member cast again 38 years later and making it work just as impressively shows that Mr. Nichols is one of history's most important directors.