Why Do Fools Fall in Love: Critic Reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

We get no discernible Frankie at all!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lawrence Van Gelder New York Times (Top Critic)

Lymon's career may have been short and sad, but Why Do Fools Fall in Love finds the melodrama of his life in the exciting music of his time and the tumult of his romances.
Full Review » 12 years ago
USA Today (Top Critic)

75

Entertaining and nostalgically moving!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Washington Post (Top Critic)

A dull and frustrating movie.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Filled with color and energy!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Foolproof fun!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

The musical numbers are outstanding! Mr. Tate turns Frankie's showmanship into an expression of bold kinetic energy!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Denver Post (Top Critic)

A standout performance by Vivica A. Fox and Leranze Tate!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

What made Frankie run? The movie clearly doesn't know.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Jampacked with rock glamour and exploitation, joy and horror, that keeps showing its subject at different angles, through different eyes.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Too ill defined to emerge from the pack of box office also-rans.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

A celebration of pop fantasies, a boyish rascal with a helium voice, and three pretty fools who fell in love with him.
Full Review » 9 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

Despite employing the familiar motion picture elements of sex, greed, and music, this is not a run-of-the- mill biopic.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

Though Nava's soapy directing style makes Fools watchable enough in a campy way, the film's unsophisticated nature undermines its better qualities.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Dave McCoy Film Threat

10

This biopic is soulless, underwritten, over-acted and, worse, just plain dull.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

67

Larenz Tate is terrific recreating the excitement of Frankie's stage presence.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

40

Worth it for the music -- but only barely.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Rebecca Murray About.com

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Jim Shelby Palo Alto Weekly

63

The biggest problem is the man at the center.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Peter Stack San Francisco Chronicle

100

A fresh, enlightening example of how to take a tragic American show-business story and make it funny, warm and terrifically entertaining.
Full Review » 10 years ago
San Jose Mercury News

Smart, quirky love story.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Vice Deseret News, Salt Lake City

50

Nava ... evidently couldn't decide whether to play scenes straight or comedically, as he mixes some highly inappropriate humorous scenes with more seriously dramatic ones.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rob Blackwelder SPLICEDWire

75

It's the ornery cattiness between his three wives that drives the action and makes it so much fun to watch.
Full Review » 12 years ago