Love Ranch
E1 Entertainment | Release Date: June 30, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
11
Negative:
10
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38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
What could have been a juicy, pulpy noir, based loosely on the real-life 1976 Mustang Ranch love triangle involving Joe and Sally Conforte and Sally's boxer paramour, instead has the dramatic consistency of rice milk. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Maybe Hackford, and his screenwriter Mark Jacobson, were attempting to convey the dullness of vice. If so, they vastly overcorrected. But what about the dullness of the performances? Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
In Ms. Mirren's first film to be directed by her husband, Taylor Hackford, since "White Nights" in 1985, her formidable dramatic resources can't camouflage flat writing that eventually veers into gloppy sentimentality. At times even Ms. Mirren, who adopts a regionless American accent, seems uncomfortable. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Hackford's pacing throughout is continuously off, with scenes extending several beats too long, his two leads adrift and bored. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary Goldstein
The grand Mirren is, truth be told, miscast and Pesci is misdirected as Grace and Charlie Bontempo. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Director Taylor Hackford ("Ray") seems to be aiming for a big "Boogie Nights" social canvas, though the movie's risible prize-fight sequence is more reminiscent of the later "Rocky" sequels. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Taylor Hackford, fails to squeeze the tiniest bit of juice, sexy or comic or otherwise, out of the chintzy-libertine locale. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Material this banal needs a madman of David Lynch proportions to incinerate it. Hackford leaves it intact, forcing us to regard a car he doesn't have the guts or skill to crash. Read full review
25
ObserverRex Reed
Even Helen Mirren on a bad day is better than nine out of ten American film queens polluting movie screens on any given Sunday, but really, this is one time she should have stayed in bed. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It is a colossal bomb, an epic miscalculation, an excuse for actor self-indulgence and for what sounds very much like bad improvisation. Read full review
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