Loving Pablo

  • 15 (DENMARK)
  • 2017


MOVIE IS interesting cinematic powerful compelling disappointing
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38 %
32 % Rotten
$ 17 Million
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Positive Reviews 18
Negative reviews 20
Average Rating 2.4/5
interesting cinematic powerful compelling disappointing

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3.0
It doesnt take long for the couples affair to go public, and for another kind of suitor to come around: Peter Sarsgaards grim faced DEA agent. EW
2.5
The film spends much too much time going over the same rise and fall material that has been a staple of many portrayals of Escobar himself and of most .. Rogerebert
3.0
There isnt enough human connective tissue between the re creation of the headlines. Common Sense Media
1.5
Long, loud and lurid, with a distinct whiff of week old quesito colombiano. Variety
2.0
As if the figure of the king of drug trafficking wasnt a stereotype canonized by thrillers addicted to the dirty business, Loving Pablo looks us right .. Time Out
3.0
But Aranoas film forces these two diverting performances into regrettably done to death beats in a familiar rise and fall narrative. The Guardian
2.0
Bardem strives commendably to hold it together, surviving the twin burdens of a prosthetic belly and a shaggy Maradona perm to make this Escobar a dis .. The Guardian
1.9
The film uncomfortably dwells in a murky middle ground where everything is overblown but meant to be taken at face value.
1.0
The film certainly doesnt try to whitewash Escobar, showing him not only as violent and largely charmless, but as an abuser of teenage girls. Screen Daily
1.5
Like flipping through the pages of a pulpy best seller, watching Loving Pablo has its moments of guilty pleasure but leaves an empty feeling when you .. The Hollywood Reporter
1.5
Tolerating Pablo might have better suited this unremarkable picture...
2.5
Heck, its not even better than Benicio Del Toros ESCOBAR: PARADISE LOST, which offered a far more compelling look at the man. JoBlo
3.0
Im not sure what the Loving part of the title means to de Aranoa, but hes convinced this is a tale worth two hours of screen time. Blu Ray
2.5
It certainly doesnt care about Virginia beyond her relationship with him. Mark Reviews Movies
1.9
De Aranoas persistently slick direction doesnt really alleviate the often punishingly uninteresting atmosphere, while the heavy accents ensure that fa .. Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Despite skilful filmmaking and acting, this material feels far too familiar. Shadows On The Wall
4.0
It doesnt matter that Pablo has a wife (Julieth Restrepo) and family. Az Central
3.0
The result isnt entirely bad if youre here to simply watch a Pablo Escobar biography. The Film Stage
3.0
But just because everyone looks and talks like theyre in a telenovela doesnt mean the production was cheap. The Play List
1.5
Loving Pablo wants to address too much and fails to hit any of the aspects about Pablo Escobars life.
1.5
Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar was a vicious mass murderer, but this biopic about him cant bring itself to say that. Scmp
3.0
Its the cinematic equivalent of a vintage True Confessions article the kind that would inspire a headline like My Sin Was Loving Him. Film Avclub
1.5
Even Javier Bardem and Penlope Cruz cant enliven this drug lords love story. Film Journal International ..
3.5
And, yes, theres memorable stuff involving a jungle skimming helicopter. Seven Day Svt
1.5
My problem with Loving Pablo is not the abusive dj vu with the character and plot, but that it doesnt live up to my expectations. El Pais (Spain)
0.5
For those who only know that Escobar was a narcoterrorist, the film will surely surprise you, scene after scene.
2.0
The film follows the same narrative most biopics centered around Pablo Escobar do in exploring the fable or greek tragedy rather than the historic.
1.5
It is not doubtful that audiences will be drawn in to see Bardem and Cruz at work, but its a shame that the film doesnt even attempt to exploit their .. Konexión
3.0
Reasonably tense dramatization of the career of a major drug lord. Rotten Tomatoes
3.0
Bardem and Cruz are powerful in front of the camera, but the histrionics can and do fail the film. Fotogramas
4.5
Two models, one prodigiously cinematographic and the other is tv, that battle inside of Loving Pablo and take the new work of Leon de Aranoa towards t .. Fotogramas
3.0
A film that is correct and interesting, but still doesnt manage to escape the trappings of biopics.
1.5
Disappointing in its inability to add anything relevant to the vision that TV and film have made of Escobars character. El Mundo (Spain)
3.5
The tragedy of a wasted life plays second fiddle to the tempestuous love affair with TV hostess Virginia Vallejo. Its Just Movies
3.0
To its great credit, the merciless edge of Loving Pablo rejects forced cinematic sugar coating overused in other crime films to romanticize its leviat .. Every Movie Hasalesson
1.0
Here neither music nor photography bring anything special and the truth is that the entire movie is mortgaged by its lack of quality. La Nación (Costa Rica)
2.0
Also, dont think this is going to be a womans perspective of the goings on within drug cartel. Orcasound
1.5
The film is oddly reluctant, given that this is being told from Vallejos point of view, to spend the time needed to explore the relationship between t .. Cineuropa
0.0
This conventional story of the rise and fall of a gangster would have been at least watchable if they had not made the movie in a terrible spoken Engl .. Ernestodiez Martinez
4.5
A lavishly entertaining, deeply amoral drug life biopic thats never believable for a second. West Word
4.5
More a greatest hits than a story, the kind of radically compressed life of a legend movie where everything happens in a giddy, ridiculous gush. Miami New Times



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