Loverboy
Screen Media Films | Release Date: June 16, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3
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75
New York PostKyle Smith
First-time director Kevin Bacon (Mr. Sedgwick) cleverly maintains a balance of discomfiting and familiar by jumping nimbly around Emily's life. Read full review
70
Film ThreatBob Westal
Kevin Bacon's witty and effective, yet squirm-inducing, directorial debut. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Loverboy is a grim little story, but it's leavened unexpectedly with humor and energy. A stylish and thoughtful director, Bacon marries music to image beautifully. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJames Greenberg
Good performances and a keen eye for period detail can't disguise the fact that not much is happening here story-wise. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
A classic case of "Better if you didn't read the book" cinema, Loverboy emerges an OK character study of an abnormally possessive mother. Read full review
50
Village VoiceLuke Y. Thompson
Bacon the director indulges his wife, letting her play crazy and emotional in a showy performance that screams "serious actress." Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
actor-turned-director Kevin Bacon (Sedgwick's husband) can't seem to decide if he's making a film about a loving eccentric or a sociopath. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Almost until the end, Loverboy maintains a shaky integrity. But in its final moments it caves in to convention with a mawkish epilogue to a story that ends with an appalling act of selfishness. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Bacon instinctively pushes Loverboy toward surreal domestic satire. It's fascinating to watch Sedgwick try to make Emily into a luminous wack job. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
It all adds up to an unfortunate misfire: a film at odds with both its source material and itself. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The real trouble is at its core, with an over-the-top performance from Sedgwick that borders on Baby Jane campiness. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Though he labors endlessly to account for her behavior, which is explained away by flashbacks to her decadent parents and a glamorous mother-figure played under Vaseline lens by an uncredited Sandra Bullock, Bacon fails to make her seem human. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Bacon lavishes his camera on her (Sedgwick) in various states of dress and undress, but the script, by Hannah Shakespeare - talk about having to live up to a name! - is a cheat. It rarely expands on the boy's crises in having to deal with such a mother. Read full review
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