Love Is All You Need Reviews
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Overstuffed Love Is All You Need an unsatisfying, predictable rom-com from Susanne Bier
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| Original Score: C-
Slant Magazine
At times it seems as if Susanne Bier set out to create some kind of absurdist comedy, but lost her nerve somewhere along the way.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Quickflix
Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need is so relentlessly unremarkable it might sit as the precise median on a chart of all films ever released.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Scotsman
Maybe some of its ambition got lost in translation?
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| Original Score: 2/5
The List
Willfully tries to market itself as delightful and heartwarming, but ends up being neither.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Two troubled souls struggle with obstreperous relatives and a bundle of unresolved life issues apparently snatched from the nearest airport bookstore.
Daily Express
What's not to like? Unfortunately, quite a lot.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film4
While it's always commendable when filmmakers attempt to broach new territory, this disappointingly slight rom-com does not live up to director Susanne Bier and writer Anders Thomas Jensen's more serious work.
RedEye
Has nothing to do with The Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love.' Based on the movie's low quantity of romance, it may as well be called The Walrus I Am.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Despite the gorgeous sights and rollicking sounds of sunny Italy, a Scandinavian heaviness hangs over the film, with a screenplay by Ms. Bier's frequent collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen, based on a story they developed.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The sole saving grace of this treacly middlebrow dross is the naturally sweet chemistry between Brosnan and Dyrholm.
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| Original Score: 2/5
AV Club
As movies have taught us before (and no doubt will again), a little Mediterranean sunshine and a few plucks of soundtrack mandolin go a long way toward healing heartache.
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| Original Score: C
Observer [UK]
The characters are familiar social types, none too well conceived, and there is an almost painful lack of subtlety in the writing and performances, possibly because most of the script is in English.
Guardian [UK]
It looks weirdly like a romcom pastiche, not cynical, but not properly inhabited; it doesn't taste of romance or comedy any more than Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans taste of soup.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Bier and Jensen have relied so heavily on clichés that their effort can't compare even to the formulaic movies they're trying to emulate.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Rather than give her protagonists vivid interior lives, Bier defines them in relation to the satellite characters who circle them ...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Globe and Mail
Top CriticBreathtaking visuals (sea cliffs, lemon groves) and heartfelt performances enliven what is otherwise a highly predictable story.
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| Original Score: 2/4
We Got This Covered
It's thanks to a calming Italian setting and amiable chemistry between its leads that the film is able to rise above its conventional setup and sometimes erratic and convoluted plot developments.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Flix Capacitor
Not nearly as sugary or unapologetically generic as its glossy posters and uninspiring title would have you believe, Love Is All You Need is charming, heartfelt and unexpectedly likeable. Not just disposable middle-aged fluff:
| Original Score: 3.5/5
Its strongest moments come when Bier exceeds the expectations of the genre ...
