Equal parts heartwarming and repulsive, the compulsively watchable film is certainly 90 of the fastest, weirdest minutes I've spent in a theater in a long time.
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07/06/07
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Crazy Love (2007)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:64
Rotten:19
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Crazy Love’s subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc’s dry, talking heads format.
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...an unsettling documentary about the pathological "love" of one damaged human for another
07/06/07
Particularly because many viewers have already seen the TV-news version, almost any other genre would have been even more compelling -- a fictionalized drama, perhaps, or Truman Capote-style narrative non-fiction.
07/05/07
Top CriticDespite knowing some of the story's more jaw-dropping developments beforehand, I was still riveted and surprised by the movie.
07/02/07
An irresistible comic shocker, with more satisfying surprise twists to its narrative than one finds in a novel by Patricia Highsmith.
06/29/07
At the same time, it makes Linda, possibly, a deeply disquieting wife for Burt -- at least as imagined from outside the marriage. As a friend of Linda's puts it, "He sees what he did to her every single day. I don't know if it's a joy or a punishment."
06/24/07
[Director] Klores and Stevens do a pretty good job filling in the gap using standard documentary techniques.
06/22/07
It's hilarious, more than a little sad, and totally captivating... it's like really juicy gossip at the water cooler, only the people are telling the dirty secrets about themselves.
06/22/07
You can't make this stuff up.
06/20/07
It’s an amazing story.
06/18/07
Top Critic... the equivalent of a gripping page turner.
06/15/07
... though Crazy Love remains a far cry from heartening, it is more amusing than disturbing, especially given the cranky yet symbiotic couple of today.
06/15/07
Top CriticCrazy is the word for it, and if writer-director Dan Klores seems a bit too sympathetic at times, he still lays out a twisted story of obsession that ends in well-maintained mutual madness.
06/15/07
... Crazy Love is something less than artful, while being completely compelling in its attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible.
06/15/07
Top CriticThe story behind Crazy Love is pretty fascinating. But the storytelling in this documentary isn't always so fascinating.
06/15/07
Dan Klores' crazy relationship doc Crazy Love takes a tale tailor-made for sensationalist treatment and sculpts it into a riveting three-act drama.
06/15/07
Top CriticThe movie’s quirk isn’t forced; it sincerely ponders the nature of love and of human need.
06/15/07
Klores tells this story as well as its ever likely to be told...[and] as stories go, this one's a doozy.
06/15/07
[Director] Klores coyly omits key information only to wallop us with it later for a gleeful surprise.
06/14/07
Dan Klores's astonishing film is about a subject so bizarre it could only work as a documentary -- as a drama, it would be dismissed as being too far-fetched.
06/14/07
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