Endless Love
Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 14, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
11
Negative:
19
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFeb 13, 2014
In the hands of director and co-writer Shana Feste (Country Strong), Endless Love has become a solidly engaging neo-'50s romantic melodrama. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaFeb 12, 2014
If you had to update the film for the Instagram generation, you could do a lot worse than what director Shana Feste (“Country Strong”) has come up with. She has crafted a stylish, evocative journey into overheated-teenager territory. For a good chunk of the time, it works. Read full review
60
EmpireAnna SmithFeb 11, 2014
A flowerier adaptation of the Scott Spencer romance than Zeffirelli's '80s version, it's tailor-made for the Nicholas Sparks crowd. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyFeb 12, 2014
The film also contains fleeting moments of authenticity. Most of these come courtesy of Robert Patrick, who plays David’s father, and Greenwood. Together, these two veteran actors turn could-be-thankless “good dad/bad dad” roles into credible depictions of wounded masculinity. Unfortunately, the movie isn’t about them. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireFeb 14, 2014
It's awfully tasteful and emotionally detached in its blissed-out depiction of beautiful young people cavorting in the sunlight. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesBruce IngramFeb 13, 2014
Love may or may not be endless, but there’s no limit to what can be contrived in a movie like this. Read full review
50
The PlaylistKimber MyersFeb 13, 2014
It’s a movie-length cliché about the type of love that explains why drugstores are stocked with cheap, forgettable Valentine’s Day gifts bought by teenagers and the immature at heart. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundFeb 12, 2014
Shana Feste's film seems blissfully unaware that great fights require truly substantial conflicts. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFeb 12, 2014
Greenwood and Richardson make a fine, discordant couple and the young leads have a certain chemistry. If only Feste had realized she’d stripped almost all the conflict out of the story. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillSep 22, 2014
A certain doofy sincerity – all fairy lights and lakeside kisses – and Wilde's nervy, natural responses keep matters semi-watchable. As a romance, though, it's by-the-book. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyFeb 13, 2014
Every time things between blue-collar David (Pettyfer) and pretty, privileged Jade (Wilde) get sticky — either kissy/gooey or teary/hurt-y — and the film could go deep, "Endless" morphs into music video territory. Read full review
40
Film.comLaremy LegelFeb 13, 2014
That it’s not totally dialed in throughout makes it a victim of the same thing most bad movies fall prey to: having the spark of a great idea rested awkwardly on top of a spinning mess of execution. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFeb 13, 2014
A highly homogenized and sanitized remake that's little better than its 1981 predecessor. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 14, 2014
This Endless Love is a photo shoot, not a movie. It'd play better as a slideshow of jpgs. Even nine-year-old girls ought to cry foul on this movie's endless blandness. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigFeb 13, 2014
What is most troubling is how this film can serve to shape perceptions for impressionable kids. Young girls and boys will think that non-stop make-out sessions is all it takes to sustain "endless love." Read full review
38
Boston GlobePeter KeoughFeb 13, 2014
Though Zefferelli’s version was trashy and downright nuts, at least it made you feel the love. This pallid replay just seems endless. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 13, 2014
A movie just begging to go up in the flames of camp. If only somebody had brought a match. Read full review
30
VarietyRonnie ScheibFeb 13, 2014
In “The Greatest” (2009) and “Country Strong” (2010), Feste proved herself quite skilled, if not especially innovative, at limning her characters’ emotional travails. But subtlety, complexity and even the slightest modicum of realism elude her here. Read full review
30
The DissolveKeith PhippsFeb 13, 2014
Pettyfer and Wilde look the parts, but any scenes asking them to emote quickly turn disastrous. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Phil BrownFeb 13, 2014
A film like Endless Love comes about as close to reality as a Hobbit sequel, only without a single dragon to remind impressionable viewers that they might not want to take it literally. Read full review
25
Washington PostStephanie MerryFeb 13, 2014
The movie feels like Nicholas Sparks fan fiction. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianStephen WhittyFeb 13, 2014
This is supposed to be a movie about obsession. Instead it's just cupcake meets beefcake, with a big glass of milk on the side. And that's one Valentine's Day dinner you can easily pass up. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubFeb 13, 2014
The update is a different kind of failure, too much endless and not enough love. Read full review
25
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsFeb 13, 2014
This stinker is only good for endless laughs. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickFeb 13, 2014
Endlessly lame. Read full review
20
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottFeb 14, 2014
This is supposed to be a movie about obsession. Instead it's just cupcake meets beefcake, with a big glass of milk on the side. And that's one Valentine's Day dinner you can easily pass up. Read full review
20
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 13, 2014
Directed by Shana Feste (“Country Strong”), this new Endless Love doesn’t have enough going on to make it memorably terrible: Banality is its gravest sin. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFeb 13, 2014
If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day date, this version is probably a better choice than the uncomfortably swoony original would have been. You might be bored, but at least you won’t be embarrassed. Read full review
20
Village VoiceHeather BaysaFeb 13, 2014
This film is a sunny, overlong pastiche of tropes, the kind that suggest love involves nothing more than holding hands and jumping off a dock into a lake, or having slow, teary-eyed sex in front of a fireplace, inexplicably blazing in mid-June. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackFeb 12, 2014
Not to harp on petty details, but this film is so colossally tone-deaf and off-key in every way that its collection of jarring missteps almost carries it into the arms of perverse comedy. Read full review
20
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonFeb 11, 2014
Pettyfer and Wilde (both Brits) look the part in a soft-drinks-commercial way, but their characters might as well be called Ken and Barbie for all the depth they bring to this wish-fulfilment fantasy of social mobility. Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 17, 2014
It’s actually worse than the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli–Brooke Shields version — which is worse than being waterboarded but at least bears some resemblance to the book and its brilliantly addled ‘70s vibe. Read full review
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