Love Life
Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: August 11, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeSep 17, 2023
It’s a solid, sensitively handled study of the aftermath of a trauma, elevated by tricky, unexpected revelations about Park. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 9, 2022
Koji Fukada’s Love Life unabashedly embraces melodramatic contrivance in its examination of modern middle-class love tested as much by social prejudices as by personal demons; it just does so with such pallid, polite reserve that its sentimentality never becomes transcendently moving. Read full review
50
Little White LiesXuanlin ThamSep 11, 2023
Its final act is composed of such undercooked plot developments that its emotional stakes lose all import. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 14, 2023
It’s more a grief triangle than a love triangle, and a late revelation alters its symmetry, erasing hard-won sympathy for one character. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 10, 2023
Love Life doesn’t coalesce into anything deeper than “Everybody’s dealing with something” and “Life’s a mess that only gets messier.” And in the end, this quiet drama — stumbling into near comedy for the finale — is just pointless enough to pass for “dull.” Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeAug 7, 2023
Because we’re tasked with inferring so much about the characters, especially their pasts, so much of the film’s romance is unconvincing. Read full review
50
The PlaylistElena LazicSep 9, 2022
A busy web of interpersonal dynamics, Love Life often feels more concerned about its characters’ storylines and the way they all fit into each other than about what the audience might be getting out of watching it all play out. Read full review
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