Love's Labour's Lost
Intermedia | Release Date: June 9, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
11
Negative:
11
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30
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
Taken as a whole, the movie seems to be searching for a harmony it never really achieves. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Branagh has cut, pasted and aggressively abridged Love's Labour's Lost, and piled it high with fancy visuals to make sure we get the drift. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
But this is a sloppy job, both in little goofs...and in the cast's gung-ho amateurism. It's like Shakespeare done by the "Fame" kids. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A stink bomb of a movie. Read full review
20
Film.comRobert Horton
These are good people, yet the director has them carrying on like community theater actors playing to the balcony. It isn't fair to them, and it isn't fitting for Shakespeare. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
It ought to be delightful, but it isn't. Read full review
20
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Hamming shamelessly as Berowne, Branagh is overseasoned for his part ... he's as desperate as a veteran social director at a Catskills hotel about to fold. Read full review
16
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
An atrocity exhibition from start to finish. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Misguided version of one of the Bard's best comedies. Read full review
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
KEN, KEN, KEN, not another Shakespeare, pleeeeeeez. Read full review
10
SlateDavid Edelstein
Unfathomably awful. Read full review
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