Death in Love: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 18 reviews

Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

30

How do you explain a movie as hermetic and perverse and ultimately repugnant as Death in Love?
Full Review » 3 years ago
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News (Top Critic)

60

Yakin and his cast are up to the job, but the current they tap into is so charged it proves overpowering. Still, their bravery is commendable.
Full Review » 3 years ago
David Edelstein New York Magazine (Top Critic)

A pretentious and stilted but weirdly compelling blend of sins-of-the-parent saga and horror movie.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

What makes pretentious, low-budget-indie filmmakers think the world is waiting breathlessly to absorb their personal memoirs like groundbreaking new recipes for meatballs?
Full Review » 3 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

Apparently so personal that it feels as though it were hatched in a hermetically sealed capsule, Boaz Yakin's Death in Love is as ambitious as it is stultifying and deadly to watch.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

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There's something seriously wrong when you assemble actors this good -- and can't believe a single stilted word coming out of their mouths.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Duane Byrge Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Pierces the senses.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

80

Death in Love is occasionally pretentious but always riveting.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Nora Lee Mandel Film-Forward.com

30

Even as the frustrated audience can already see the truths, secrets, and manipulations congeal around the characters, they seem impotent to stop being victims.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Wade Major Boxoffice Magazine

40

A strangely indulgent and highly personal film seemingly crafted less as a piece of entertainment than a work of expression from an increasingly conflicted artist.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Geoff Berkshire Metromix.com

70

A raw and uncompromising drama with considerably limited appeal ... leaves a lasting impression, though it's rarely easy to watch.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Christy Lemire Atlanta Journal-Constitution

It's not as if we learn anything or feel any insight or catharsis from watching his characters destroy themselves and others.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Robert Levin Critic's Notebook

38

The story of miserable people living miserable lives without redemption, humor or hope.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Mark Peikert New York Press

The failure of the movie is hardly attributable to Lucas, or co-stars Jacqueline Bisset and Lukas Haas. I'm afraid the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of writer-director Boaz Yakin.
Full Review » 3 years ago
S. James Snyder Time Out New York

60

Survivor's guilt jumps a generation in Boaz Yakin's bleak family portrait, an incendiary journey back into the psychic horrors of the Holocaust.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Marshall Fine Hollywood & Fine

A fascinating mess: sprawling, passionate, conflicted, confused...It may not be a film with a lot of clarity to its vision, but it definitely has vision, which is rare.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Harvey S. Karten Compuserve

75

A stagy, melodramatic, and downright effective story about the way a mother's pain is passed on to her brood.
Full Review » 3 years ago
David D'Arcy Screen International

Boaz Yakin's dark drama is about the legacy of pain.
Full Review » 4 years ago