Editing Sleeping with the Enemy (section)

===Critical reception===
{{as of|July 2024}}, the film held a 24% "Rotten" rating on review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 38 reviews with an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's consensus states: "A game Julia Roberts gives it her all, but ''Sleeping with the Enemy'' is one stalker thriller that's unlikely to inspire many obsessions of its own."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sleeping with the Enemy |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sleeping_with_the_enemy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128021913/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sleeping_with_the_enemy/ |archive-date=November 28, 2017 |access-date=November 28, 2024 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film holds a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sleeping with the Enemy Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/sleeping-with-the-enemy/ |access-date=November 28, 2024 |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[Fandom, Inc.]]}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=CinemaScore |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] gave the film 1.5 stars out of a possible 4 upon its release, saying while the film had good performances and the opening scenes "briefly seemed to have greatness in its grasp", ''Sleeping with the Enemy'' quickly fell into cliches and [[plot holes]] and became "a [[slasher movie]] in disguise, an up-market version of the old [[exploitation film|exploitation]] formula where the victim can run, but she can't hide."<ref>{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=1991-02-08 |title=Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sleeping-with-the-enemy-1991 |via=RogerEbert.com |access-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604235314/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sleeping-with-the-enemy-1991 |url-status=live }}</ref> Another mostly negative review came from Owen Gleiberman of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', who wrote that the film "has the bare bones of a tantalizing thriller" and praised Robert's performance ("you can practically feel her pulse"), but also felt Bergin's role was too "mechanical" to be believed, and placing blame on the "deadwood" script.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Sleeping With the Enemy |url=https://ew.com/article/1991/02/08/sleeping-enemy/ |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=1991-02-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312182251/https://ew.com/article/1991/02/08/sleeping-enemy/ |archive-date=2023-03-12 |url-status=live |last1=Gleiberman |first1=Owen}}</ref>