Mr. & Mrs. Smith

By
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is the former film critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2014.
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Published on June 17, 2005 04:00AM EDT

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play married assassins, and the mutual hostility looks good on them. Doug Liman’s winkingly decadent ballistic domestic screwball comedy is fun when it presents the stars as an action-comedy extension of bourgeois marriage, but it hits the same note of ”ironic” violence over and over.

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