Lonely Hearts
Millennium Films | Release Date: April 13, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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80
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Todd Robinson constructs a riveting thriller. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesAlex Chun
While not much of a detective story, Robinson's period film does provide a captivating look at the dynamics that turn Fernandez and Beck into serial killers. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
As fictional characters in a movie that is fetishistic in its attention to period detail, Mr. Leto and Ms. Hayek work well together as an unsavory couple two rungs down the social ladder from Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity." Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The story of Fernandez and Beck may be grotesque comedy, but Todd Robinson tells it straight, without flinching from its piteousness, horror, or banality. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Lonely Hearts never locates the key to the killers' bloody bond. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Travolta gives a hangdog performance as the world-weary cop obsessed with rooting out the killers. Hayek and Leto share a few tart black comic moments as the film spirals into a bloodbath. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
While Travolta and Gandolfini have the beefy, closed-off look of post-WWII era cops, they never FEEL: They look like actors playing dress up. Leto overcomes his delicate good looks to embody Fernandez's feral, faintly exotic charm, but Hayek is a standard-issue femme fatale, damaged on the inside but flawless on the surface. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter Travers
The intensity of Leto and Hayek goes deeper than the script into revealing what makes these two sociopaths in heat impervious to bloody murder. When Hayek and Leto are onscreen, you do not look away. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A handsome and well-acted film -- if you like that bitten-off, half-Hemingway style -- but also a grim, emotionally strangled one with a strong sadistic current, no genuinely likable characters and almost no humor. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
While the duo's crimes were indeed sensational, writer-director Todd Robinson's starry take on the material fails to provide much in the way of a new perspective. Read full review
50
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Todd Robinson, grandson of the real-life Elmer, never fully commits to the heartlessness of the genre as Arthur Penn did in "Bonnie and Clyde." Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Too much of the film is given over to the soap opera of Elmer's life. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Good as she is, the effortlessly magnetic Hayek just can't sell the role of a pathetic soul whose deep insecurities turn her into a sociopath. And if she has too much charisma, Leto, as the smooth Lothario, simply doesn't have enough. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Hayek, with that old-time movie-star pout, those dark, reflective eyes (they could be Satan's twin swimming pools), is the shivery, chilling backbone of Lonely Hearts. Martha Beck couldn't get away with murder. But Salma Hayek can. Read full review
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