Endless Love Reviews

A bad but commercially popular romantic melodrama, due to Brooke Shields' celeb status at the time and the the Oscar-nominated tune by Lionel Richie.

Full Review | Original Score: C

A potentially interesting story of obsessive teenage love is sabotaged by some laughably absurd overplotting.

| Original Score: 4/10

A Cotton-candy rendition of Scott Spencer's powerful novel, Endless Love is a manipulative tale of a doomed romance which careens repeatedly between the credible and the ridiculous.

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A notorious disaster.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

As excruciating as the Diana Ross/Lionel Richie title tune.

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Love twaddle, perfect for teens.

| Original Score: 3/5

The movie as a whole does not understand the particular strengths of the novel that inspired it, does not convince us it understands adolescent love, does not seem to know its characters very well, and is a narrative and logical mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Anyone unfamiliar with the story of Scott Spencer's novel is bound to be mystified by Franco Zeffirelli's latest film, which reduces Endless Love to a whimperingly latter-day Romeo and Juliet with a little pyromania thrown in.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Endless Love explores romantic yearning in all of its intensity.

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In a word: yuck.

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| Original Score: 2/5

| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 2/5