The Lovers
IFC Films | Release Date: March 13, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
19
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Overwhelming dislike based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
1
Negative:
7
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60
New York Daily NewsGraham FullerMar 12, 2015
Suckers for romance likely won’t complain, but this Josh Hartnett time-travel epic is nuts. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 12, 2015
[An] inert, exasperatingly proportioned phantasmagoria from Roland Joffé. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenMar 12, 2015
There's a veil of artifice clinging to every aspect of The Lovers, a thoroughly unconvincing time-traveling epic costume drama pairing a miscast Josh Hartnett and Bollywood beauty Bipasha Basu. Read full review
30
Village VoiceInkoo KangMar 10, 2015
Bring a notebook and some tissues — the mission to protect the queen becomes a tangle of shifting alliances between local and British forces that might require visual aids, while the snail-slow realization of gloomy prophecies may well tear you up in boredom. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMar 13, 2015
The scenic cinematography by Ben Nott is often beautiful, which distracts, at times, from the fact that the storyline is both convoluted in the most gratuitous way possible and that it’s enacted in the most unengaging way imaginable. Read full review
20
Time OutDavid EhrlichMar 16, 2015
Forget that The Lovers doesn’t have the courtesy to be fun; no cosmic romance should be so deeply afraid to shoot for the stars. As one of the film’s many forgettable characters so eloquently puts it, “This stinks worse than an oyster’s fart.” Read full review
12
Slant MagazineClayton DillardMar 7, 2015
A shamelessly derivative and preposterous would-be blockbuster that goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time-travel sci-fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once. Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedMar 11, 2015
An idiotic bore called The Lovers has so little connection with anything professional that it’s hard to believe it was written and helmed by the same man. It’s so deadly and unintentionally funny (I hope) that it practically defies description. Read full review
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