Love in the Time of Money
Blow Up Pictures | Release Date: November 1, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
9
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70
Film ThreatAnthony Miele
It is a great character study that ranks with Paul Thomas Anderson's epic "Magnolia." Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Guaranteed-to-bum-you-out conclusion. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
Sluggishly paced and shot in the sort of grubby digital video that renders even the dewiest skin tone liverwurst gray, the film comes across as little more than a series of acting workshop exercises wrapped in a tissue of cliché. Read full review
40
VarietyDavid Rooney
This kind of episodic chain of interlocking encounters has become a formulaic favorite in American indie cinema, and Mattei's take on the genre is narrow and schematic. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded, as if circularity itself indicated profundity. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyDan Fienberg
The film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive. Kane's character observes that "We’re all connected by love" -- and that sounds familiar, too. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Mattei's script was written in 1998, and the absence of any sense of the impact of 9/11 on New Yorkers is palpable. While watching "Love," I was thinking what great potential there was - still is - for a Manhattan "La Ronde" set in the days following 9/11, when strangers sought comfort from each other in spontaneous sexual alliances. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The characters who cross paths here in the hard shadows of late-'90s New York City are meant to convey loneliness, bitterness, neediness, loss, and bad karma. Mostly, they convey bad Sundance. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
What keeps Love in the Time of Money from being truly awful is the fact that the actors give it their all -- they may be in contrived situations, but by golly they'll make the best of them. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Manages to make sex look like no fun at all. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Anemic chronicle of money grubbing New Yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The idea, I suppose, is that love connects us all, even when it goes wrong. Fortunately, even love doesn't usually go quite so badly as this movie does. Read full review
25
New York PostMegan Lehmann
An exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Neither original nor presented in a convincing way. Read full review
20
The New York TimesDana Stevens
A listless and desultory affair. Read full review
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