Love at First Fight
Strand Releasing | Release Date: May 22, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
CineVueJohn BleasdaleJun 18, 2015
An expertly handled and brilliantly performed feel-good comedy with an original twist. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyMay 22, 2015
Madeleine (Adele Haenel) does not know that she is a character in a rom-com. She thinks she's in a war movie. Or, better yet, a dystopian post-apocalyptic movie. Anything but a rom-com. She does not smile until an hour and 20 minutes into Love at First Fight. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMay 20, 2015
Even when it’s slowing down, Fight shows beguiling confidence in both its filmmaking and its characters—enough to make its smallest romantic moments feel significant. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMay 21, 2015
For its first two-thirds, the film, written and directed by Thomas Cailley, seems to be groundbreaking. Then it slides into comforting familiarity. Read full review
70
The DissolveMatthew DessemMay 19, 2015
The title does a real disservice to the film, a romantic comedy made with both visual and narrative intelligence, centered by great performances from Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMay 19, 2015
Rejuvenating the romantic comedy through its unusual premise — in which training for an elite army unit releases a flood of pheromones — Cailley's film is also buoyed by its enormously appealing leads, Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiMay 18, 2015
Love at First Fight is overflowing with relentlessly acerbic humor that shapes the way the film's two young protagonists contend with not just each other, but also with the uncertainties of the world they're emerging into as adults. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJun 11, 2015
Cailley never truly builds a narrative head of steam, resulting in periods of logy pacing and diffused focus. Still, the strong leads, several amusing moments and a clutch of intriguing character bits sketch what might have been. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 18, 2015
Though the slow-boil chemistry is there, the script feels flat, content to rely on the surface friction between its lead actors, rather than creating scenes in which we can really get to know the pair’s respective personalities before testing their limits in the field. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 11, 2015
The actors make the movie’s memorable characters all the more indelible, even when Love at First Fight loses its sense of originality. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithMay 20, 2015
A sort of grown-up version of “Moonrise Kingdom,” France’s Love at First Fight has some youthful free-range charm but not nearly as much as its predecessor. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineClayton DillardMay 18, 2015
Transparently wearing metaphors on its singed sleeves, the film shuttles around courses of meaning and significance without committing to any. Read full review
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