Love After Love
IFC Films | Release Date: March 30, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
84
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 28, 2018
In its way, this small, handcrafted, and immaculately well-realized feature challenges the limited way that movies tend to depict loss. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshApr 5, 2018
It's a viewing experience that's challenging, unflinching and deeply honest. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMar 30, 2018
The performances could hardly be better — with the exception of O’Dowd, who’s good but maybe needed to find just one redeeming moment. (The writers could have helped.) As for Andie McDowell, I haven’t changed my thinking about her amateurish work in almost everything but "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," but I also see that with the right material her inward demeanor can be powerful. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 29, 2018
Elegantly shot on film by Chris Teague, the movie feels unforced and at times shockingly authentic, allowing its emotions to percolate and rise of their own volition. Read full review
88
Washington PostChristopher KompanekApr 17, 2018
Love After Love meanders through richly observed and sometimes startlingly funny scenes, never attempting to force the drama. The richly drawn characters stumble toward healing in ways that are refreshingly honest. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comNell MinowMar 30, 2018
This first-time feature from writer/director Russell Harbaugh has an understated, intimate, pointillist style, with a cool jazz score that matches its improvisational tone. Read full review
83
The Film StageJonah JengApr 5, 2018
In joy as well as in pain, life is both momentous and mundane. Love After Love gets this, and as a result, it feels like truth. Read full review
80
Village VoiceSam WeisbergMar 28, 2018
The cast is intoxicating. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney
Elegant and unsentimental, this is a minor-key, wintry ensemble piece with an emotional hold that sneaks up on you. Read full review
80
VarietyNick Schager
Bolstered by superb lead turns from Chris O’Dowd and Andie MacDowell, as well as a formal structure that enhances the roiling emotions propelling its characters into a downward spiral, Love After Love is an assured debut feature that announces its writer-director as a formidable new American indie voice Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 30, 2018
First-time director Russell Harbaugh presents grief as it is, in all its pain and ugliness, rather than using the convenient, uplifting short-hand that Hollywood prefers. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineCarson LundMar 29, 2018
In every scene, the film's cutting is dictated by the turbulent pace of the characters' inner lives. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 29, 2018
Co-writer/director Russell Harbaugh has created a chamber tragedy, intimate in its dimensions, devastating in the damage we see spiral out of that one death. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghApr 19, 2018
The ways in which Love After Love is successful at portraying the grief process is also what makes it at times wildly unpleasant to watch. Read full review
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