James Gray's Two Lovers really is a '70s movie, in the mode of such raw, unfiltered character studies as "The Panic in Needle Park," "Wanda," and "Fat City."Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Gray's peculiar accomplishment here is to turn this story into an intense emotional drama, beautifully photographed and profoundly ambiguous, suspended somewhere between realism and psychosexual allegory.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The whole movie is so well-cast and performed that we watch it unfolding without any particular awareness of "acting."Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Betsy Sharkey
Themes of loneliness, alienation and unrequited love are not new, but there is always that sense of the unexpected in Phoenix that keeps you curious.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
In the movies, romantic love conquers all. In reality, it's a little different, and that's what Gray is trying to show.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
A throwback in style, pace, and storytelling to the 1970s and the downbeat mood pieces of directors like Bob Rafelson.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The film's secrets unfold slowly, allowing Phoenix and Paltrow -- a luminous fusion of grace and grit -- to build a relationship in full. The script, by Gray and Richard Menello, is inspired by Dostoevsky's "White Nights."Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Joaquin Phoenix gives a superbly raw and excruciatingly vulnerable performance.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
The flaws in Two Lovers are inseparable from its strengths. You could, I suppose, criticize the movie for being too sincere; too generous to its imperfect, self-deluded characters; too absorbed in their small crises and disproportionate reactions. But that criticism might sound a lot like praise.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
The movie's chief value is to preserve Phoenix at the height of his wary physical grace, which recalls a young Marlon Brando.Read Full Review »
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