Big Bad Love

  • 2001


MOVIE IS ambitious unattractive expressive fantastic respectable
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21 %
41 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 9
Negative reviews 10
Average Rating 2.4/5
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2.8
In the end, this is a story about a hard to know guy who loves his typewriter most of all. Everything else is just dust jacket photography. EW
2.5
It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow. I cant. Rogerebert
2.5
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
3.5
Even Angie Dickinsons creaky Southern matriarch cant tone down his crazed lust for life.
2.5
The tone is chilly and depersonalized, and the metaphors and genre pricks dont mesh, but theres redemptive value in performances by Polley, Helen Mirr .. San Francisco Chronicle
1.5
Self indulgent and pretentious, a narcissistic portrait of the artist as tormented genius that flails about for two hours in a failed effort to appear .. One Guys Opinion
2.5
Far too clever by half, Howards film is really a series of strung together moments, with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies, daydreams, m .. Tv Guide
1.9
However, one element of the film works beautifully, and thats Winger. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.8
Howards tyro helming and scripting effort is an uneven blend of confusion and vision.
1.5
Howard and his co stars all give committed performances, but theyre often undone by Howards self conscious attempts to find a literary filmmaking styl .. Film Journal International ..
1.3
As aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice, the movie makes two hours feel like four. Internet Reviews
2.0
A movie that cant get sufficient distance from Leroys delusions to escape their maudlin influence. Toronto Star
1.8
This ambitious drama about a Vietnam vet trying to create fiction out of his troubled life and former marriage (to Debra Winger) is messy, rambling, a .. Emanuellevy
4.5
theres enough meat on the bones of Big Bad Love ... to keep it from being dismissable. Salon
1.5
However, that doesnt mean home burglaries are a thing of the past. Observer
4.0
Brave and admirable for the trust that it puts in a viewers intuition and willingness in going along with it right through to its rewarding finish. Calendar Live
0.6
Trailer park Magnolia: too long, too cutesy, too sure of its own importance, and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing .. Film Freak Central
1.5
A chaotic panorama thats too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags. Boxoffice Magazine
3.5
... grounded by honest, expressive performances from Howard and Winger, who achieve a tempestuous chemistry. It also makes you want to pop open a cold .. E Online
4.5
The film is an uncannily eerie echo of its protagonist ravishingly poetic one moment, bellowing with unarticulated rage the next. Kansas City
3.0
You can see where Big Bad Love is trying to go, but it never quite gets there. Jam! Movies
2.5
While Howards appreciation of Brown and his writing is clearly well meaning and sincere, the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for .. Freep
3.5
A respectable mix of piercing human frailty, the tricks your mind plays on you, and the unexpected blows to the ego that force separation and reconcil .. Filmcritic.com
2.5
Offhand, if youd like to see some great imagery about writing, then you should by all means rent this and skip to the good parts. Need Coffee
0.5
The worst kind of independent; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their ..
2.5
Youd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous . Sacramento Bee
2.5
Makes you wish youd stayed at home with a book preferably one of Larry Browns. World Film About



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