He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
IDP Distribution | Release Date: February 14, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
6
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Movie-style romance may never look quite the same. Neither will flower petals. Read full review
100
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It's difficult to overstate how much of a rare find this movie is. Colombani and her cast remind us that the best thrillers are built upon superb writing and strong acting. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
This is an acerbic examination of erotic obsession, told from different perspectives, with wit, suspense and cold-blooded detachment. Read full review
88
USA TodayClaudia Puig
This genre-busting movie has the appearance of a love story but morphs into a thriller, told cleverly in a nonlinear style. Think "Sliding Doors" crossed with "The Sixth Sense," with a little "Memento" thrown in. Read full review
80
Washington PostRita Kempley
Wickedly clever. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Mercifully there's more Hitchcock than Lacan in this slickly enjoyable little number, which cannily plays off the ingénue image of "Amélie's" Audrey Tautou. Read full review
80
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
May not change the world, but it's deeply creepy and richly satisfying. Read full review
80
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Turns on an intellectual gimmick in the vein of "Memento," weaving down sinister byways, the better to click with satisfying symmetry. Read full review
80
TimeRichard Schickel
Colombani has created uncommonly arresting entertainment. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
An impressively assured and confident first film and has been made with such attention to detail and mood that it's possible to regret not paying closer attention to its cleverly deceptive first part. It is ultimately unsettling in the utmost, its creepiness leavened by only the slightest touch of pitch-dark humor. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Poses a problem for reviewers. The entire story hinges on a plot device that occurs roughly midway through the film and alters everything that has come before. To give away this massive, unavoidable spoiler would be disastrous and unforgivable. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Perhaps not since Truffaut's "The Story of Adele H" has thwarted love been rendered so compassionately on the screen, its psychology laid bare. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
The film holds charms for everyone but in a very unusual way: If some audience members feel cheated at the halfway mark, others will feel that the film is finally getting started. Nifty! Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The fact that it's difficult to believe someone who looks as dewy as Tautou would be so dangerous is much of the game. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Though I wouldn't call He Loves Me a total success, it's smart, intriguing and quite ambitious, a first film by a talented young filmmaker that displays superstar Tautou's gifts in an eerie new light. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
An interesting choice for a Valentine's Day outing, He Loves Me is a weird, bubbly cocktail -- effervescent charm and troubling pathology, shaken together. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It's clever enough, but it's mostly a contrivance to hide the fact that there's nothing interesting about the story itself. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Not half as clever as its setup leads you to think it might be: It's all buildup and no payoff, the kind of romantic thriller in which if just one sensible character called the police at the moment as any normal human being would -- well, then, you wouldn't have a movie. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
Standing on its own, it's comme ci, comme ça, self-serious when it should be adventurous, coy when it should be revelatory. One must afford it props, though, for its proud celebration of insanity. Now that is truly creepy. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
While the story starts tying up its loose ends nicely, as the end approaches, the film turns flat. It's a disappointment. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Like "The Sixth Sense," He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not reaches for a crowning final twist, but in this case it falls flat. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The trouble with director and co-writer Laetitia Colombani's debut feature is that the story isn't really interesting enough to be told twice, let alone dragged out another 20 minutes after that. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Settles for the cliches of American suspense films, right down to an ending that leaves the door open to a possible sequel. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Baggy and overbroad, He Loves Me is notable only as a corrective to cinema's promiscuity with fabulous destinies. Read full review
25
New York PostMegan Lehmann
It's a sugar cube laced with arsenic, a nasty little film whose mean-spiritedness is surpassed only by its mediocrity. Read full review
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