Lolo
FilmRise | Release Date: March 11, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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6
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8
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostSara StewartMar 9, 2016
Even the most extreme punishments are softened by hilariously neurotic dialogue. Vive la Delpy! Read full review
70
Village VoiceBilge EbiriMar 10, 2016
Lolo is a fun, airy movie, but it's also unafraid of complexity. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijSep 19, 2015
Lolo has a solid laughs-per-minute rate and enough twists to overcome the occasional screenplay hiccup. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJessica KiangSep 19, 2015
Lolo features long stretches of perhaps her most accomplished and enjoyable character-comedy yet. But as often with filmmakers for whom a certain register comes almost too easily, Delpy seems impatient with herself and her facility for spiky, verbal sparring and pithy self-deprecating put-downs. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMar 11, 2016
This sometimes rewarding but also bothersomely uneven comedy is Julie Delpy’s sixth feature film as a director; she also co-wrote. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMar 7, 2016
A curiously unsentimental director of romantic comedies, Julie Delpy sees romance for the work that it primarily is. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldMar 10, 2016
Many little touches in the film reflect the offbeat hand of Ms. Delpy. But she sells herself short by not giving the mother-son conflict a bit of a sharper edge beyond Lolo’s awfulness. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMar 11, 2016
It’s all meant to be funnier than it is. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKeith UhlichMar 9, 2016
The film is at its best when its central trio fumbles around the same circle of hell they’ve obliviously created for themselves, making the best of a situation that is much worse than they could ever imagine. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 31, 2016
I appreciated the effort Delpy, directing her sixth feature, puts forth in trying to spice up the genre. But that doesn’t mean I enjoyed it. Read full review
50
Washington PostVanessa H. LarsonMar 24, 2016
Lolo presents a sympathetic take on the ways that midlife romance can push us to reevaluate our relationships, even — maybe especially — the ones we think we know best. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 8, 2016
Lolo is entirely too familiar, too predictable, a character study in romantic mishaps that’s far less interesting than the name Delpy cooked up for her “little alpine bunny,” a passive, pretty creature worthy of our contempt, at least as Wells envisioned him. Read full review
50
VarietyAndrew BarkerSep 19, 2015
Well cast and funny just often enough to recommend. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 19, 2015
Julie Delpy’s latest directorial effort juggles some potentially delicious ideas, but Lolo proves to be an exasperating romantic comedy that flirts with darker terrain it never has the guts or wit to really explore. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Julia CooperJun 2, 2016
Clumsy and erratic, Lolo is a slapdash comedy of errors that slips on its own banana peel but gets few laughs. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 24, 2016
This strained, often crass comedy traffics in broadness and inconsistency far more than anything smart, clever or dimensional. That might be more forgivable if the film was at least funny. It's not. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 19, 2015
This romp is just embarrassing. Read full review
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