Sehr accurately captures new love -- at its mildest distracting, at its harshest destructive.
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04/10/03
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Love the Hard Way (2003)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:12
Rotten:31
Average Rating:4.8/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 6, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Underneath a classic good-girl and street-wise Don Juan romance, LOVE THE HARD WAY reveals itself to be a keen examination of love and emotional dependency amidst the social divergences and... [More]
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Reviews for Love the Hard Way
Brody's performance as Jack is about as good as that which won him the Oscar for The Pianist.
06/20/03
No review available.
10/16/05
Any woman who wants to change her man will find out how.
05/29/03
Annoying as it is in some ways, is worth seeing for Brody's performance alone.
06/21/03
[Brody] can be proud of his work here, and the movie is better than just a pre-stardom curiosity.
06/20/03
Top CriticBrody pulls the juggling act off -- bringing to mind some riveting cinematic misfits before him, from Brando to McQueen to Pacino.
08/01/03
'While the film's tough to watch, it's also impossible to look away from.'
06/13/03
One of those films where great acting and occasionally brilliant dialogue attempt to overcome an unbelievable plot and a cowardly Hollywood ending.
09/12/03
Top Critic[W]orth seeing mainly for Brody’s electric performance ...
06/09/03
Top CriticAs character studies of Jack and Claire, it is daring and inventive, and worthy of comparison with the films of a French master of criminal psychology like Jean-Pierre Melville.
06/27/03
Top CriticBrody creates exactly the taunting demi-monster who could inveigle Claire.
06/25/03
Top CriticThis is Love the Dull Way.
06/05/03
[The story] is often overly simplistic when it is trying hardest for emotional complexity.
06/19/03
Top CriticBrody has offbeat charisma, but it's no match for the corny dialogue he's given here, not to mention the Wild at Heart snakeskin jacket he wears.
07/10/03
To say the love story was hard to believe, is putting it mildly--it was impossible to fathom.
08/15/04
The film's premise -- that the savvy student played by Charlotte Ayanna would get involved with this creep -- is a stretch at best.
06/06/03
A movie that can't make up its mind if it wants to be urban poetry or a silly soap opera.
06/13/03
The pair have little chemistry: Ayanna is a lovely girl with a sweet smile and a fine pout, but she simply can’t match the soul shining from Brody's big brown windows.
06/12/03
Desperately overblown 2001 melodrama.
06/06/03
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