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As unconventional and unwieldy as the life and legacy it honors, Love & Mercy should prove moving for Brian Wilson fans while still satisfying neophytes.
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All Critics (209) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (188) | Rotten (21)
It's bittersweet and melancholic, always captivating, holding the irrefutable truth of a pop lyric. Jul 10, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's bittersweet and melancholic, always captivating, holding the irrefutable truth of a pop lyric.
Cormac O'Brien
Pohlad's movie lacks the kind of multi-layered texture it purports to celebrate. That said, it's still full of mind-altering potential. Jul 10, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Pohlad's movie lacks the kind of multi-layered texture it purports to celebrate. That said, it's still full of mind-altering potential.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
The execution is ambitious and intriguing enough to make this particular biopic feel fresh, new even. Jul 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The execution is ambitious and intriguing enough to make this particular biopic feel fresh, new even.
Wendy Ide
It's an eloquent tribute to a great American innovator. Jul 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's an eloquent tribute to a great American innovator.
Peter Bradshaw
We're shown so many symptoms that, regardless of which actor is playing the hero, there's little relief from the prevailing grimness, and less sense of a life in full. Jun 10, 2015 | Full Review…
We're shown so many symptoms that, regardless of which actor is playing the hero, there's little relief from the prevailing grimness, and less sense of a life in full.
Joe Morgenstern
When you consider all the ways that "Love & Mercy" could have gone terribly wrong, and how full of life it is in the end (and, yes, of love and mercy), I think the end product is almost miraculous. Jun 9, 2015 | Full Review…
When you consider all the ways that "Love & Mercy" could have gone terribly wrong, and how full of life it is in the end (and, yes, of love and mercy), I think the end product is almost miraculous.
Andrew O'Hehir
Unfortunately creative producer and financier Bill Pohlad's revisit to the directorial role becomes a bit of a long and hard slog, regrettably warped by excess. May 16, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Unfortunately creative producer and financier Bill Pohlad's revisit to the directorial role becomes a bit of a long and hard slog, regrettably warped by excess.
Danielle Davenport
It could have played it safe but it tries things and when it works I loved it. Apr 26, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
It could have played it safe but it tries things and when it works I loved it.
Rachel Wagner
Love & Mercy glides forward gracefully, flitting from side to side between the two time periods like a well handled hockey puck. Its shape doesn't resemble any biopic I've ever seen, and that's its strongest quality. Mar 13, 2019 | Rating: 8.5/10 | Full Review…
Love & Mercy glides forward gracefully, flitting from side to side between the two time periods like a well handled hockey puck. Its shape doesn't resemble any biopic I've ever seen, and that's its strongest quality.
Bernard Boo
Director Bill Pohlad intricately weaves together the two Brians into a seamless tale. Feb 4, 2019 | Full Review…
Director Bill Pohlad intricately weaves together the two Brians into a seamless tale.
Amanda Greever
What takes "Love and Mercy" into the territory of greatness is the two leads -- Dano and Cusack. Jan 22, 2019 | Rating: A | Full Review…
What takes "Love and Mercy" into the territory of greatness is the two leads -- Dano and Cusack.
Micheal Compton
Love & Mercy is always interesting, but it's only occasionally illuminating. Dec 13, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Love & Mercy is always interesting, but it's only occasionally illuminating.
Abbie Bernstein
A look at the year or two that proved to be the most creative for Mr. Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, the reckless self-medication that accompanied those times (as well as ever-so-slight nods as to why he did), and what was left of the man when he emerged from the other side. It's okay but it's very clean, and certainly not the tale of a survivor that it hints that it might be.
Super Reviewer
"Love & Mercy" has some of the best acting I have seen from John Cusack, but there are script and direction weaknesses that make the story dull and incoherent at times. This story might have seen better told linearly.
"Love & Mercy" follows young and older Brian Wilson and his band, The Beach Boys. While we flash back and forth between the bands struggles and triumphs, and into the future where he is trying to find love and dealing with Schizophrenia, the film's deep vibes and meaningful visuals made me very emotional. Paul Dano is incredible in his portrayal of Brian Wilson and John Cusack plays his illness very well. Elizabeth Banks really felt like someone who had no idea how to handle this situation. In the end, "Love & Mercy" satisfies with brilliant writing, superb direction, and a story that is much more worth telling than I expected it to. I really loved watching this film and it displays amazing performances all around and celebrates their best music in style. This is not a film you should miss. Definitely worth it's praise.
Brian Wilson's records Pet Sounds and, in another story, falls in love with a car dealer. This film alternates between two stories of Brian Wilson's life, and both are compelling and incredibly well-acted. John Cusack and Paul Dano are at top form, and their performances are the highlights of this strong, interesting, and heartfelt film. Paul Giamatti plays older Wilson's psychiatrist cum legal guardian, who is scamming Wilson for his fortune and talent, and younger Wilson's Beach Boys brethren vie for control of the band, the artistic sense of which Wilson wants to take in new Beatles-imitation directions. For a while, I was so compelled by the pitch-perfect story-telling and wonderful performances that I considered whether Love and Mercy might be the best film of the year, better than Ex Machina, but no, sadly, Elizabeth Banks's role fall in to the "helping woman" cliche, and there are some objectiveless, wandering scenes that only Dano's talent makes interesting. Overall, God only know what would be a better Brian Wilson biopic.
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