Love Reviews
D.M. Palmer Vague Visages
Noé once again conflates pleasure and death, regarding them as being part of the same process — that every sensation sets in motion the negation of that energy, that each merging carries the germ of dissolution.
Full Review | Nov 9, 2023
Edward Lawrenson The Big Issue
Love is bound to wind some people up, and it is overlong and a little clunky. But it is also a serious, honest, nakedly earnest piece of film-making.
Full Review | Sep 21, 2023
Taylor Baker Drink in the Movies
Beds, paintings, hallways, parks, bridges, windows, and cafes slip in and out. What is constant is the characters and their search for an honest connection.
Full Review | Original Score: 75/100 | Aug 22, 2021
Casey Cipriani Bustle
...this artsy little film has just enough style and substance to make it stand out.
Full Review | Nov 16, 2020
Lucía Ros Serra Espinof
Handsome, young and generally good-looking Karl Glusman and Aomi Muyock have limited interpretive skills, suggesting that Gaspar Noah was only interested in jerking himself off. [Full Review in Spanish]
Full Review | May 14, 2020
Thom Denson One Room With A View
A film that despite its title is hard to truly fall for.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2019
Adam Lowes CineVue
Love will be misconstrued by many as a transgressive cinematic experience but, in his own pioneering way, Noé is reaching for an honest and pure reflection of young, sexually-untethered love.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2019
PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro
Noé also indulges his penchant for the tracking shot, and I am reminded these marvels of camerawork and logistics are as much commentaries on time as they are on space.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018
Pat Padua DCist
An exercise in navel-gazing, and worse.
Full Review | Aug 29, 2018
Charles Mudede The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
So why did the master of 21st-century transgressive French cinema make such a tame and sentimental film? I think it's because he had nowhere else to go after making three really great and extreme films.
Full Review | Aug 23, 2018
Robert Kojder Flickering Myth
The key problem with Love is that Noe is so self-indulgent this time around, there is little room to emotionally connect with the characters.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2017
Blake Williams Cinema Scope
This film is, indeed, absolutely moronic.
Full Review | Nov 18, 2017
Matthew Bond The Mail on Sunday (UK)
Love makes you long for old-fashioned metaphors of trains rushing into tunnels. Instead, Noe gives us real, hard-core sex that goes on and on. And in 3D too. It's gruelling and untitillating.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2017
Judy Berman Flavorwire
That philosophical freedom is what gives his earlier films value, and the lack of it is what makes Love, with its adherence to worn-out binaries, a disappointment.
Full Review | Sep 21, 2017
Alex Heeney Seventh Row
I've seen more eroticism in far less graphic films.
Full Review | Aug 14, 2017
Carlos F. Heredero Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
The film can boast one thing: having the most idiotic and moronic dialogue in cinema history. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Jun 2, 2016
James Hadfield Japan Times
It's too bad that the film's performance outside the bedroom is so unconvincing: the acting is dodgy, the storytelling is limp.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 31, 2016
Nathaniel Rogers The Film Experience
This 3D sex movie is much more banal both visually and narratively than you'd expect.
Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 13, 2016
Gonzalo Lira Galván El Fanzine
Although masterfully acted by its three main actors, the only new offering in this film responds to the natural need of Noe to cause a shock in the audience. [Full Review in Spanish]
Full Review | Mar 9, 2016
Victoria Alexander FilmsInReview.com
Karl Glusman has a future in Hollywood.
Full Review | Mar 4, 2016