Brave and admirable for the trust that it puts in a viewer's intuition and willingness in going along with it right through to its rewarding finish.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Too long (and it sure ain't taut), but it brims with passion.Read Full Review »
75
Boston Globe: Staff (Not credited)
It's messy, but in the end satisfying, a film worth making, a journey worth taking.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
It's made with an accurate and loving, but also wary and squinty-eyed, view of the South. If only the movie hung together better overall.Read Full Review »
58
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Howard luxuriates in writerly misery as Barlow, and the participation of the filmmaker's real-life wife, Debra Winger, as Barlow's ex gives the scenes between the two of them an unfakeable erotic charge.Read Full Review »
50
The New York Times: Dana Stevens
Beneath its stylistic and structural quirks, Big Bad Love -- is a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow. I can't. Big Bad Love can, and is filled with characters who love and accept him, even though he is a full-time, gold-plated pain in the can.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
I don't know if Howard had fun directing, writing, and starring in this thing; but he had to have gotten more masochistic pleasure out of it than the audience does.Read Full Review »
30
Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Brown's saga, like many before his, makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie.Read Full Review »
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