Amour Reviews
The Aristocrat
Life is full of unfair horrors; that is why we go to the cinema. Amour is the cinematic equivalent of telling a child Santa doesn't exist.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Examiner.com
There is such a thing as being too straightforward, which is exactly what "Amour" becomes. If anything, it'll leave you wishing that there was more substance to it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Slant Magazine
This isn't the work of a newly moral or humanistic filmmaker, but another ruse by the same unscrupulous showman whose funny games have been beguiling us for years.
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| Original Score: 2/4
L.A. Weekly
On paper it's a welcome change of pace for Haneke, but his tendency to treat the couple as patients rather than characters -- at a cold remove rather than with a warm embrace -- feels at odds with the material.
East Bay Express
A bitter, pitiless piece of work. We can admire its components, but we're repulsed by its vision.
AskMen.com
If Haneke has any real interest in keeping art cinema alive, he should take some notes from the Queensbridge rapper Nas.
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| Original Score: 60/100
Film Geek Central
Haneke's self-indulgent approach is getting old to me. His devoted fans will like it, but others will most likely be scratching their heads trying to figure out how this got a Best Picture nomination.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top CriticHaneke remains, by his rules, infallible. So what?
Reel Film Reviews
...the movie, which rarely leaves the couple's apartment, adopts a palpably repetitive feel that slowly-but-surely drains the viewer's interest...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Scotsman
There's no empathy here and no genuine insight either.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Boston Phoenix
Two of the world's best actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, play Amour's octogenarian couple, so it's surprising that the characters aren't very interesting.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Philadelphia Daily News
All is presented in Haneke's exacting style, one that I find controlling and a bit, well, smothering.
The Patriot Ledger
It leaves you spent, depressed and intensely afraid of the future. In some ways that's admirable, but like our fallible bodies, it gets old - fast.
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| Original Score: B-
Flix Capacitor
Amour is just as likely to put someone to sleep as it is to win high-brow praise.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Fan The Fire
The type of metaphysical mediation on marriage, love, and death that insists, allows, and rewards introspection.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Big Hollywood
Powerful and well-acted, this drama meticulously captures the pain and perils of aging in a way that will be hard to forget.
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| Original Score: 4.0/5
Austin American-Statesman
It is hard to recommend Amour. Austrian director Michael Haneke's film cannot justly be described as entertaining, and it will likely leave you sad and weary. But it is a film you must see.
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| Original Score: A
NECN
Haneke addresses the ravaging effects of aging in a starkly intimate way but Amour oddly lacks affectivity. Something that should be overflowing with emotion is strangely as sterile as Georges and Anne's Parisian apartment.
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| Original Score: B
2UE That Movie Show
Amour is harrowing, emotional, thrilling, intense, beautiful, tragic, and powerful cinema.
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| Original Score: 5/5
