The Other Woman (2014) poster
2014 · comedy · romance · revenge · music

The Other Woman

Directed by Nick Cassavetes1h 49m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.0157kRT27%Metacritic39
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • tender
  • funny
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

Our read · The Other Woman (2014) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · revenge entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want fizzy revenge comedy with three women wrecking a cheater together.

ends triumphantyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if infidelity humor with parents nearby makes you squirm tonight.

If The Other Woman is your film
The First Wives Club (1996)
scorned women teaming up for gleeful payback
(unless '90s divorce comedy feels dated)
The Heat (2013)
female buddy chaos, sharp banter, and physical comedy
(if foul-mouthed cop comedy is too loud)
How to Be Single (2016)
post-breakup female friendship and Manhattan mischief
(unless ensemble rom-coms feel scattered)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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