Secretary

Spader handles a tricky role beautifully, but this is Gyllenhaals's tour de force. She is remarkable and original.

... Secretary shows how one woman stopped at nothing to get her love. But I'm still scratching my head at the whole thing.

A feel-good movie about sadomasochism, the seriocomic Secretary manages to be simultaneously subversive and sweet...In the wrong hands, the conceit could have turned ugly and offensive. But Spader and Gyllenhaal have a hushed, hilarious chemistry.

What a surprise Secretary turns out to be. Freshly conceived, small-scale and daring.

Feels more like something A24 would release in 2022 than a Lionsgate movie from 2002, even though it's actually the latter (20th anniversary)

A wicked little off-beat love story.

Presenting the original Mr. Gray. Maggie Gyllenhaal's Lee Halloway and James Spader's E. Edward Gray are a top notch duo of lawyer and secretary...

[Secretary] manages the impossible trifecta of being simultaneously funny, sympathetic, and really, really hot.