Loveless
"DIA" Productions GmbH & Co. KG | Release Date: February 18, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 15, 2018
Austere and magnificent film. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFeb 15, 2018
The title of Loveless is no misnomer: It might just be the feel-bad movie of the year. A new word should be invented for the particular kind of poetic, politically-charged bleakness acclaimed filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, The Return) brings to the screen, some Cyrillic-alphabet cousin to the Germans with their weltschmerz and schadenfreude. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 15, 2018
Aside from Alyosha, there's no one to root for here, and Zvyagintsev paints the bleakest of picture. But his filmmaking has a driving force that hurtles you along, and like his 2014 masterpiece "Leviathan," this micro-focused drama allows the director to turn the story of one family into an X-ray of a nation's bruised soul. Read full review
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerFeb 16, 2018
Zvyagintsev would have done better, I think, to include more of the beauty that has gone out of this world, if only to heighten its loss. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 15, 2018
One word springs to mind after 15 minutes of Loveless: Getmethef**koutofhere. The chill eats into you — the cold burns and cuts. But it turns out Zvyagintsev has more on his mind than emotional cruelty to kids. Read full review
80
EmpireAndrew LowryFeb 12, 2018
Come for the near-endless rows that convincingly carry the venom of a collapsed, resentful marriage; stay for the extended critique of Russia’s contemporary spiritual vacancy. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnFeb 18, 2011
Loveless proceeds like a messy younger sibling of Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg" as it tracks Andrew's ongoing denial of the mounting pressures to settle down, many of which come from his reasonably sane ex, Joanna (Cindy Chastain). Read full review
50
VarietyRonnie ScheibFeb 18, 2011
Loveless exerts a low-energy, dread-tinged fascination that intrigues rather than wows. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerFeb 17, 2011
An aimless film about an aimless fellow, but it's not without its charms. It may be without a point, but hey, you can't have everything in a no-budget film like this. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichelle OrangeFeb 15, 2011
Despite inventive moments between the performers, the central character, true to his type, is too casually drawn to sustain our interest in whether he loves or loses. Read full review
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