As fictional characters in a movie that is fetishistic in its attention to period detail, Mr. Leto and Ms. Hayek work well together as an unsavory couple two rungs down the social ladder from Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity."Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Alex Chun
While not much of a detective story, Robinson's period film does provide a captivating look at the dynamics that turn Fernandez and Beck into serial killers.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Lonely Hearts never locates the key to the killers' bloody bond.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The intensity of Leto and Hayek goes deeper than the script into revealing what makes these two sociopaths in heat impervious to bloody murder. When Hayek and Leto are onscreen, you do not look away.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
A handsome and well-acted film -- if you like that bitten-off, half-Hemingway style -- but also a grim, emotionally strangled one with a strong sadistic current, no genuinely likable characters and almost no humor.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ella Taylor
Todd Robinson, grandson of the real-life Elmer, never fully commits to the heartlessness of the genre as Arthur Penn did in "Bonnie and Clyde."Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Hayek, with that old-time movie-star pout, those dark, reflective eyes (they could be Satan's twin swimming pools), is the shivery, chilling backbone of Lonely Hearts. Martha Beck couldn't get away with murder. But Salma Hayek can.Read Full Review »
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