The result is an actor's dream, a film in which the truth of almost every scene has to be excavated out of the debris of social inhibition.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheila Benson
The pace of the direction and-especially-of the screenplay by playwright-television writer John Kostmayer-begins to crawl, weighing down everything. [06 Apr 1990]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Hal Hinson
Despite its mixture of macabre slapstick and broadly stroked caricatures, the film has sleepy-time rhythms; it's easily the pokiest farce I've ever seen.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
More problematical is the tone of the film, which attempts to be both compassionate and goofy, though the events are funny only if they are seen as farcical.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
while not without pleasures, I Love You to Death essentially seems a film in search of a tone. [06 Apr 1990]Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Kasdan has inexplicably reduced flesh-and-blood characters to cartoons.Read Full Review »