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2010
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Positive Reviews
97
Negative reviews
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4.1
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4.5
Its an emotionally claustrophobic drama, played with frayed nerves and raw emotions, and it serves as an unrelenting glimpse into relationship hell.
Av Club
4.5
This film has the power to crush your soul and blast apart the fizzy bliss of a new romance.
Den Of Geek
4.0
The storytelling is what also sets it apart from films weve seen like it before.The structure is incredibly interesting but doesnt stop you from getti ..
We Got This Covered
3.0
Thats kind of what Blue Valentine feels like, with its obsessively mapped arcing and actorly ding dinging at every emotional beat.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
But Paltrow does well in less Biblically scoped scenes; shes got charisma to burn, and nicely straddles the faultline between sass and tremolo tearine ..
Austin Chronicle
4.4
Who was it who said we get married because we want a witness to our lives.That may provide an insight into the troubled minds of the married couple in ..
Rogerebert
5.0
Dean is dedicated but burnt out from trying to keep them together.
Ny Daily News
5.0
Best of all, the film manages to feel both timely and timeless, without ever going so far as to be preachy.
Screen Rant
4.4
So, if life is not a lesson to be learned, what is it.In this version, the answer is harrowingly simple: Its the passage of time amid a swirl of chang ..
The Globe And Mail
2.5
Which is to say, fraught.With anger, recrimination, and a bitter reconsideration of love itself it isnt an illusion, it certainly has a very short she ..
Philly
3.1
(Blue Valentine was slapped with an NC 17 for those scenes; if you want to see the film before the MPAA appeals and the inevitable trims, nows your ch ..
Philly
4.0
Blue Valentine presents a chilling anatomy of how an intimate relationship can begin with genuine passion and end with a whimper.
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
The two star actors are quite good in bringing out the raw emotions involved in falling in love and in falling out of love.
Sover
4.4
This is a very strong movie, a terrific movie, but approach it at your own risk.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.5
The performances are so gripping that the movie works despite its diagrammatic structure, which focuses on ironic rhymes between past and present and ..
Chicago Reader
3.1
The performances may be subtle and strong, but the conceit of the screenplay and its execution are not.
Mark Reviews Movies
5.0
The heart of this beautifully mesmerizing film comes down to that simple entreaty.
Usa Today
3.5
Its a sad tale, and its well told but what does it amount to I feel like theres so much left undone.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
Writer director Derek Cianfrance brings great delicacy to this portrait of a marriage, preferring to nudge the audience along rather than semaphore ev ..
Independent
4.4
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams give two of the most explosive and emotionally naked performances you will see anywhere.
Rolling Stone
3.5
This portrait of a strained relationship is often difficult to watch, simply because it feels so real. Fortunately, the screenplay includes plenty of ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
There are also several delightfully detailed character touches, such as the eagle emblazoned jumper that Dean wears or the reason behind Cindy being i ..
View London
4.0
Blue Valentine has a rare emotional intensity. There is no way to prepare for its final frames, inevitable as they are.
News Day
2.5
Dean is a charming working class lout while Cindy, a college grad, works in a doctors office and pines for a better life.The films time structure is s ..
Cs Monitor
5.0
If youre in the first flush of a romance, maybe you should skip Blue Valentine.
Film Journal
4.5
A searing portrait of the disintegration of not just a marriage but, more importantly, the love that once fueled it.
Az Central
2.5
Women make this mistake in life, but life is what this movie lacks.
Boston
3.5
Cianfrance found his setting on the edges of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where strip malls, highways and suburbia merge with the surrounding countryside a ..
Smh
4.0
They aim instead for raw emotional experience, one thats full of insight into the ways a relationship can go astray, but mostly feels like a slow moti ..
Npr
4.4
Bright eyed youth and bedraggled adulthood alternate in a sad spectacle beautifully and sensitively portrayed.
Star Tribune
4.0
Its almost unbearably poignant and is reprised over the final credits.
Guardian
3.0
Derek Cianfrances film is a sombre, painful portrait of a toxic marriage, often touching and sometimes moving, though occasionally contrived and self ..
Guardian
5.0
I think most viewers of Blue Valentine will see that authenticity in the terrific performances of its co stars.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.5
Blue Valentine wrenches us with its painful and tender understanding of how people with even this tattered a connection can lunge for love as if it we ..
Ew
4.0
Its a beautiful face, but beautiful in a normal, non movie star way, and so wonderfully expressive and unguarded.
Slate
3.0
The makers of the emotionally tense, narrative light Blue Valentine would have us believe that relationships are a jigsaw puzzle, just waiting to be p ..
Eye For Film
3.0
Susan Grangers review of Blue Valentine (The Weinstein Company) Spanning the course of six years, this is an intense, extraordinarily intimate, convol ..
Susang Ranger
4.0
But if you believe that movies are expected to provide an escape, youre out of luck here.
Common Sense Media
4.0
The performances are great and the naturalistic quality of the filmmaking saves it from screechiness.So what if youve kinda sorta witnessed all this b ..
Movies
4.5
The Truth Hurts: Brutally honest and unflinching in its many difficult moments, Blue Valentine is lent visceral heartache by lived in performances by ..
Movies
5.0
If the film has a flaw, its that it flashes back once too often, upsetting the rhythm at the finish and making it feel a trifle too long.
Sf Gate
4.0
I saw it months ago, and I cant forget it, but Im not sure that Ill be seeing it again.
New Yorker
4.5
But as so often is true in life, coming to terms with an end means revisiting the beginning, and that is what this solemn, beautifully acted film does ..
Time
4.5
Blue Valentine is truthful in a respect thats probably only partially intentional: It does, indeed, capture the self absorption and the warped perspec ..
Slant Magazine
4.4
His undistributed debut Brothers Tied, a moody, black and white study of a fraternal blood feud, was almost a parody of art cinema, all dramaturgical ..
Slant Magazine
4.0
The Devil Wears Prada star plays Yorkshire born Emma in the film, an adaptation of David Nicholls 2009 novel, and some critics have been left unimpres ..
Express
3.8
In this scene everything good and less good about Blue Valentine comes together.Its charming.
Chicago Tribune
3.5
Blue Valentine is a unique approach to independent filmmaking, an actors workshop with true emotion, but in the end its just too inevitable.
Reeling Reviews
2.0
But anyone expecting sleaze or erotica out of Blue Valentine based on the ratings controversy will be disappointed, instead finding only two talented ..
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
But Blue Valentine doesnt play the blame game: love and its loss are never rational.
Total Film
4.4
An autopsy of a failed marriage, it contrasts the giddy honeymoon beginning with the sad denouement after dysfunction has devastated the groundwork of ..
ReelViews
4.0
Gosling gives Dean a poor Florida native who relocates to Brooklyn NY with hope and ambition an introspective charm and confidence that could easily w ..
Hollywood
4.2
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams credibly play a young married couple Dean and Cindy whose relationship is falling apart in director/co writer Derek ..
Coles Mithey
4.0
The result is an unsettling portrait of marriage as failed enterprise and broken dreams, the tears over the scattered shards hard earned.
Los Angeles Times
5.0
The unflinching, unerringly truthful results of this divorce era dissection of love and marriage comprise a rare and most welcome grown up romantic dr ..
Groucho Reviews
3.1
The end result is an uneven yet impressive effort from Cianfrance that surely bodes well for his future endeavors, and it should certainly be interest ..
Reel Film
4.5
Cianfrance does this by shattering the usual narrative flow of a story.
Movie Habit
4.4
The film proceeds in what feels like real time, but with no obvious beginning or end. Its a latticework of moments happy and sad.
The Star
2.5
But even for those who tire of movies with shiny, happy people, all this earnest effort results in a movie thats a drag.
Oregon Live
3.5
The film has some wonderful moments and some underwhelming half hours.
Urban Cine File
3.0
Ultimately, Blue Valentine is never quite as good as the performances it houses.
Digital Spy
4.4
A small but shattering film that marks its writer director, Derek Cianfrance, as an artist of real depth.
New York Post
4.0
Very rarely have I seen a film where the relationship is so convincing. Here Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams give performances that will bring you ..
Abc
3.1
This notion is not exactly revelatory, but it is exactly how it is.Simultaneously tracing both sides of one such doomed courtship, Blue Valentine puts ..
Dustin Put Man
3.8
Blue Valentine wants to leave a bruise.This marriage on the rocks portrait its a bleary shot of Cassavetes, served on the rocks is at once romantic an ..
Larsen On Film
4.5
Deans easy going joy seems so buoyant and infectious that its hard to imagine it ever leaving.
Hollywood And Fine
2.8
Once the actors are urged to broadly communicate the oncoming gloom, authenticity of emotion is swept aside, making room for detached screen performan ..
Brian Or Ndorf
4.5
This moment of pure cinematic magic would mark the high point of your average romantic comedy.
The Filmy Ap
3.8
Watching it requires as much courage as curiosity. That it was just as hard to see the second time around says something about it. Im just not sure wh ..
Js Online
3.8
I could tag on something trite about the best effects being great actors, but you get the idea.
ComingSoon
4.0
Better put a few comedy clubs and wine bars between yourself and this tale of love gone sour then.
Sky
4.0
Or, to put it another way, this is one sad movie and watching it for some folks is going to be like torture.
Sbs
3.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
4.0
Blue Valentine is a tough and tender drama that doesnt pull any punches, and its a thrill to see two of the best actors of their generation going toe ..
The Skinny
5.0
It is heartwarming, and it is heart wrenching.It is absorbing, and its unsettling.
No La
4.4
So while Blue Valentine is one of the best films of the yearit also takes the cake very possibly for worst date movie ever.
Scene Stealers
4.0
Michelle Williams is fearless in the films most intimate moments, and superb throughout; and Ryan Goslings portrayal of a small timer with a large hea ..
reason
4.5
Call me naive if you wish (itd be a nice change from the cries of cynic!), but I truly believe films can be that powerful.A filmmaker shouldnt just fl ..
Streaming Quickflix
2.5
Blue Valentine comes close, but the uneven examination of its central couple makes for a depressing and ultimately unsatisfactory experience.
From The Balcony
4.0
Derek Cianfrances Blue Valentine opens as ominously as any horror film.The chitter of insects is loud.
Ny Mag
4.5
Sometimes just the daily routine is enough to kill a relationship; love isnt always enough.
Future Movies
4.5
Emotionally raw, heartbreakingly beautiful and superbly acted Blue Valentine was definitely worth the wait.
Trespass Mag
3.8
The first rate cinematography and an explosive soundtrack make an indelible impression.This sad and very personal movie will generate lots of discussi ..
Entertainment Spectrum
3.2
Magnificent performances elevate mundane Cassavetes esque material in Blue Valentine, a simultaneous portrait of a marriages undoing and inception.
Nicks Chager
5.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
4.8
Williamss beautiful performance is played nicely off Goslings remarkably vulnerable performance yielding a timeless portrayal of love, romance, agony ..
Reel Talk Online
4.5
Blue Valentine is a quiet film thats hypnotic in its way too relatable portrait of heartbreak.
Washington City Paper
2.5
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Richard Roeper
5.0
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Ny Press
4.5
Every once in a while a film arrives that is so honest, so expertly crafted and so sincere that the powerful emotional response it elicits is profound ..
Cinema Autopsy
3.8
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2 The Advocate
4.4
What I can talk about are the extraordinary performances delivered by Gosling and Williams.
D Cist
4.0
Gosling and Williams are pretty much perfect as the struggling couple... although early scenes lean towards the old women are boring, men are fun rout ..
Ultra Culture
4.0
But Blue Valentine is well worth watching for fans of serious minded films.
Jackson Ville
4.4
But its the undeniable talent and chemistry between Williams and Gosling that makes Valentine so powerful.
Sign On Sandiego
4.0
The highs and lows, the things we feel the hardest and the same thats Blue Valentine, equal parts exhilarating and punishing, beautiful and hideous.
The Coast
5.0
With Blue Valentine hes certainly created a beautifully tragic tale of contrasts: Man/woman; love/hate; happiness/sadness; and light/darkness.
Franks Reel Reviews
5.0
Cianfrance is not interested in the Hollywood fairytale, he want to show that love can scar.
The Crat
4.0
Not first date material, this sombre portrait of failed dreams is buoyed by excellent leads and a yearning heart.
Empire Online
3.5
But this isnt just ANY romance, people this is Blue Fucking Valentine, the most aggressively unpleasant romance possibly ever made.
Camp Blood
4.5
The film by the relatively inexperienced Cianfrance, deeply sincere but totally unsentimental, couldnt differ more dramatically from the master Godard ..
France 24
3.0
Instead of creating a complicated story, it succeeds in wearing the audience out.
Movie Day At The Court
4.0
A pyrotechnic display may go off at the end of Blue Valentine, but it is not at night, it is not romantic and it is not in anybodys head.
Jestherent Blog Spot
3.5
But aside from that, how did you enjoy the movie, Mr. Guy in front of Pee wee Herman in a Florida porno.Assuming one can use the word enjoy for what m ..
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