The Loveless (Breakdown) Reviews
CinePassion
An excoriation of Reagan-era nostalgia for the Fifties
All Movie Guide
A strange, but compelling amalgam of art film and homage to the American International Pictures biker flicks of the 1960s.
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| Original Score: 5/10
EmanuelLevy.Com
Bigelow's first feature, co-written and co-directed with Monty Montgomery, is a nihilistic meditation on 1950s biker flicks, featuring Willem Dafoe in his first screen role.
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| Original Score: B-
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Mostly concerned about how it looks and not too concerned about its story or in making great observations.
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| Original Score: A-
Top CriticAt times the perversely slow beat of each scene can irritate, but that's a reasonable price for the film's super-saturated atmosphere.
Planet Sick-Boy
A slightly hallucinatory homage to The Wild Ones.
| Original Score: 7/10
Film4
Intelligent, provocative, camp, indulgent, erotic, occasionally frustrating, and often brilliant.
Film Freak Central
A minor classic of a certain attitude.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Its evocation of tough-guy glamour is ridiculously stilted. And it regards the past with absolutely no perspective or wit.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
