New York Times, ninety points!

"Variety", ninety points!

The day after the premiere of "Love Crazy", the official Sundance Film Festival official house catalogue immediately announced the critics' evaluation of the film, and the first thing to bear the brunt of it was the comments of these two top authoritative media outlets. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Both media outlets gave a super high evaluation of 90 points, which is eye-catching, which is incredible for a small-scale romance movie, comparable to last year's "Blue Valentine's Day", which also laid the foundation for the media evaluation of "Love is Crazy". The reviews of the New York Times and Variety have been recognized by many fellow film critics.

Sundance's official review stance was a stark expression of affection for the work, "The actors are neatly dressed, but the rest of the film is so naked/naked, unabashedly presenting the true face of love, and this love movie makes other works of the same genre seem so superficial, so boring, so boring." ”

This is an official affirmation from the official house magazine, and not only that, but the official review of Sundance also gave a full score of 100 points, which is also the first perfect score given by the official since the opening of this year's Sundance. Just this one detail shows that they admire and pursue "love is crazy".

In an instant, "Love Crazy" became the number one favorite for this year's Jury Prize!

Sundance isn't the only outlet to give it a perfect score of 100. "Vanity Fair" and "USA Today" both gave 100 points.

In a review for Vanity Fair, Claudie Pugh said, "It's a one-of-a-kind, amazing, small-budget independent film that would put the big ones to shame." The power of time, the oppression of space, and the torrent of life are reduced to supporting roles throughout the movie, love, only love, and Drake Doremus dedicates a beautiful movie that is moved to the point of heartbreak. ”

USA Today's Catherine Longworth said, "Doremus is a work that shows his delicate touch of emotion and vivid interpretation of reality, but the film would not have been successful without the brilliant, natural performances of the two leading actors, and the surging and authentic spark between the two people." ”

Three out of three, three out of three, "Love Crazy" is undoubtedly the most acclaimed work since Sundance's debut this year, and that's not the end, with "Village Voice" James Bernard giving it a score of ninety-five.

In the commentary, James argues, "'Love Goes Crazy' tells the simple and pure truth: love is crazy, but sometimes - as life is meant - love hurts. Derek Doremus tells a nuanced and truthful story that awakens fond memories of 'Blue Valentine'. There is also 'Brokeback Mountain'. ”

Praise, praise, praise! The praise propelled "Love Crazy" to the pinnacle of incredible word-of-mouth, with a total of 12 media outlets running on Sundance's official house magazine, nine of which gave positive reviews, two media outlets gave intermediate reviews, and only one gave negative reviews.

This bad review comes from Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum.

Those who are interested can notice that Lisa is not interested in the previous "Buried Alive" and "Pacific War", and both gave bad reviews, and regardless of whether she has a personal grudge with Lan Li, it can be seen that Lisa does not have much preference for this rising star in acting skills who has risen rapidly in a short period of time.

"Similar to Doremus's '' at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, the film presents an eye-catching level of acting, with a lightweight performance that is a bright spot on the screen, and the chemistry between the two actors is also worthy of recognition.

But the work itself is like Wes-Anderson, who has borrowed fragments, elements and ideas from countless classics to write an end-of-semester essay on 'New Jersey' and thus studied Sophia-Coppola's films, and then borrowed fragments, elements and ideas from countless classics to create a smorgasbord of YouTube music videos -

A complete disaster. ”

Lisa is simply full of firepower, merciless, belittles the movie for nothing, and even uses YouTube to satirize Drake's amateurism, snarky and sharp, thirty points of evaluation, you can clearly see her point of view.

This time, though, Lisa was alone, and out of the twelve reviews in the official Sundance house magazine, she was the only one to go against the grain, and the only one to score below the passing mark, maybe when "Love Crazy" was released across the United States, she could find like-minded partners, but now at Sundance, all the other media outlets have sent praise. However, there is one thing that Lisa and everyone agree on, and that is the actor.

Even Lisa, in the midst of a bad review, she still gave the actor corresponding affirmation of the performance, and said "This is the only highlight".

The praise of other critics was hotter and more turbulent than Lisa's, and more accurately, the focus of most critics was on the actors' performances, including the two intermediate reviews, compared to the "Love Crazy" movie.

Mary Gronva of The New Yorker has only a 60 percent rating, and she has very limited affection for the film itself, believing that the work is only a passing grade, but has a very different attitude towards the actors.

"Felicity Jones and Ranley Hall gave amazing performances in this film.

There is a childish innocence and simplicity in Jones's performance, which vividly shows the fragility and madness of love, and Hall is undoubtedly the brightest highlight on the whole big screen, wooden, focused, youthful, hesitant, sad, fanatical, those eyes are full of the world, and when the eyes are darkened, the world falls apart.

The two actors, especially Hall, inject a magical power into the film. ”

It's hard to imagine that Mary only gave 60 points, and when I watched this evaluation alone, I thought it was a perfect score. From this side, it can also be seen that Mary's hatred of iron is not steel, as well as her strong admiration for the actors' performances.

The same is true for another person who gave a rating of sixty-five, with the Chicago Tribune's Rene Rodriguez commenting on the film, "I can't figure out why anyone would be interested in such a lingering, stingy, sweet chick romance movie." He even complained that the film was worse than Drew-Barrymore's sweet romantic comedy, "at least the latter will make you laugh and fall asleep." ”

However, Rene praised the performances of the two actors, "The chemistry between them makes people want to believe that this love story is real." Especially Hall, with his one-man performance, he supported the emotional changes and time changes of the whole movie. After 'being buried alive', he once again proved his absolute strength. ”

In addition, Rene also mentioned Jennifer Lawrence, "Her delicate performance in a limited space is commendable. It can be seen that Rene has praised the overall level of performance in the film.

It's an interesting phenomenon.

For a romance movie, in fact, what people pay most attention to is always "love" itself, or romance, or tragedy, and so on. This is true of works such as "500 Days with Sammo" and "Blue Valentine", even the famous works such as "Annie Hall" and "When Harry Met Sally".

It's not that the actors of romance movies are not good enough, Diane-Keaton (Diane-Keaton) won the Oscar for "Annie Hall" that year, but that romance movies are trapped by their own themes and frameworks, and the performance space is relatively narrow.

Taking "Brokeback Mountain" as an example, the script gives the two protagonists a lot of space for inner drama, outlining the emotional changes of the characters, sacrificing the romantic elements of love movies, and focusing on the psychological state of the characters.

Therefore, it is not an easy task for a simple romance movie to highlight the actors' performances.

But now, "Love is Crazy" has successfully broken the shackles, and the performances of the two actors have become the biggest highlight of the whole work, except for one bad review and two medium reviews, and other praises from the official house magazine.

"Genius! Genius! Genius! Lan Li Hall once again amazed the big screen! Just by that heartbreaking look in the final scene of the movie, Hall's performance was enough to rank among the top 10 best performances of the year! Not to mention, it was not Hall's best performance in a movie. Expressions, movements, eyes, and lines, Hall's performance is natural, sweet to the extreme, bitter to the extreme, and helpless to the extreme. ”

"It's a pleasure to watch Hall's performance, it's a very different role, it's a very different way of acting, but he always has a special texture to the character, between his charisma and the character's personality, blurring the boundaries of performance. Jones and Lawrence's performances were excellent, even exceptional, but in front of Hall, they were still slightly inferior. Just to see the show, I'm willing to watch this movie one more time. ”

"I wouldn't agree with anyone who says that Hall's performance in 'Love Goes Crazy' is more difficult than 'Buried Alive,' but Hall has shown a deep foundation in both works. Personally, I like the performance in 'Love Crazy' even more, you can feel it, Hall's control is even better, the kind of smooth performance, between gestures, quietly completing the character building, this skill, it is unimaginable, he is only twenty-one years old. ”

"It's a very interesting movie, the actors' performances bring out the wonderful qualities of the film, the two female characters Jones and Lawrence show their fragile side in love, but also show their strength in trying to change the status quo of life, the performance of the two young actresses undoubtedly succeeds in completing the characters, but the biggest highlight of the movie is undoubtedly Hall, the unique Hall, in a few scenes, he not only gave an Oscar-level performance, but also a Gen Y leader-level performance. ”

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Praise!