Love Me
| Release Date: January 31, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
14
Negative:
4
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91
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerJan 26, 2024
Love Me had the potential to be a little too precious in its storytelling — certainly there’s something profoundly cute about two robots falling in love, as any Wall-E fan will tell you. What keeps the narrative balanced is the raw bleakness of the setting. Read full review
83
PolygonTasha RobinsonJan 30, 2024
It’s a daringly weird debut, executed with real style and vision. Read full review
80
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonJan 30, 2025
The Zucheros bring a great deal of imagination to the task, and the sheer audacity of the movie is enough to make it worth watching, even if, at times, the gadgets’ sentimental education starts to feel repetitive. Read full review
80
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaJan 25, 2024
As much as its focus is technological, it’s an emotional exploration too – a wry and thoughtful magnification of what life feels like when you lose and re-discover your purpose, or you learn to see yourself through someone else’s eyes. Read full review
70
TheWrapJan 19, 2024
It’s a sweeping, sweet and unique romance that works across different mediums to deliver something thoughtful that isn’t afraid to wear its heart on its sleeve. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeJan 31, 2025
While the movie’s breadth-over-depth approach might have been more powerful as a short film, Love Me still delivers a unique blend of charm and existentialism across its 92-minute runtime. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJan 30, 2025
If Love Me wants us to consider the inner life of inanimate objects, that message gets muddled when we’re mostly looking at these two very alive actors. Read full review
60
ColliderTherese LacsonJan 20, 2024
Love Me has its flaws. But the cast is endearing, the robots are cute, and if you enjoy a romance movie, you won't be disappointed in this. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonJan 19, 2024
Unfortunately, the film tends to underline its points, turning a clever idea into a fairly obvious one, and Love Me’s self-consciously innocent/sweet tone can become grating. But what holds the film together is the intelligence and commitment the two stars bring to this occasionally mawkish tale. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 19, 2024
The Zucheros’ creation is audacious and original, but also suffers from some of the same ADHD issues that afflicted “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (both are movies made for multitaskers with brains wired for constantly switching between screens). Read full review
58
The Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsJan 22, 2024
It feels like a short that’s been stretched to breaking point. Read full review
58
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodJan 19, 2024
As Love Me unfolds, it becomes an exercise to explore how very human emotions affect evolving artificial intelligence beings. Although referring to it as an exercise sounds unfairly cold. The movie is certainly not that. Both Stewart and Yeun bring passion to their characters. . . But something feels off. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 3, 2025
The emotion the Zucheros are trying to express and illustrate here is a deep, fathomless, infinite loneliness, and here and there, but more than once or twice, they hit their target. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJan 31, 2025
Co-directors Sam and Andy Zuchero also wrote the script, and while there are a lot of vibrant ideas at play, there are about ten ideas too many. The film ponders existential questions but keeps them at a remove. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJan 30, 2025
Love Me, despite having two incredibly expressive actors at its center, remains furiously literal-minded in its questioning. And unfortunately, the more questions this picture asks, the more maudlin and shallow it becomes. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 30, 2025
Even though it is quite likely the longest romance in movie history in terms of the time period covered, the one-point premise is stretched washi paper-thin over the course of just 92 minutes. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 19, 2024
By the time the movie arrives at its broadly sweet but emotionally hollow final scene, it seems clear that the Zucheros want the audience to feel everything, but all I felt was nothing. Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiFeb 2, 2024
The concept is no doubt thought-provoking and, occasionally, even creative. But it’s hard to get behind the journey the AIs go on when it’s so detached, the film itself attempting to be a gripping narrative conveying heartfelt emotions that just don’t land. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatt MaytumJan 26, 2024
Writer/director duo Sam and Andy Zuchero take an admirably big swing with their feature debut Love Me, but it never engages emotionally in the way this kind of material needs to. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 19, 2024
Taking two of the most magnetic actors on the planet, Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, and transforming them into emotionally stunted virtual avatars for more than half the running time is the least of the miscalculations. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 19, 2024
It feels like a short that was expanded without enough thought for how it might work as a whole movie and by the end, even that curiosity has faded too. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshJan 30, 2025
Ultimately, all we come away with is a few cheap laughs at online culture, which dates Love Me to its own time and place, an artifact not even of now, but the recent past. This love story isn’t futuristic at all. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 27, 2025
Stewart and Yeun (“Minari,” “Nope”) do their best to animate their flesh-and-blood scenes with confusion, curiosity and attraction. But they don’t have enough screen time to make this learn-how-to-love experiment come off. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChris BarsantiJan 29, 2024
The further Love Me develops its scenario, the less plausible it becomes, even by lovelorn sci-fi standards. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 3, 2025
Love Me isn’t bad in the sense that it is poorly assembled or incompetently shot. On a craft and technical level, it’s above average. But the narrative is incoherent and the philosophical meanderings lack depth and intelligence. Read full review
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