Posing as a study in evil, Death in Love is claptrap that confuses bile with art.

| Jul 7, 2010

Say what you will about Boaz Yakin's epically awful Death in Love, but it wastes no time letting you know what you're in for.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 23, 2009

Even as the frustrated audience can already see the truths, secrets, and manipulations congeal around the characters, they seem impotent to stop being victims.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 18, 2009

A strangely indulgent and highly personal film seemingly crafted less as a piece of entertainment than a work of expression from an increasingly conflicted artist.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Death in Love is occasionally pretentious but always riveting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Yakin and his cast are up to the job, but the current they tap into is so charged it proves overpowering. Still, their bravery is commendable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009

There's something seriously wrong when you assemble actors this good -- and can't believe a single stilted word coming out of their mouths.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 17, 2009

How do you explain a movie as hermetic and perverse and ultimately repugnant as Death in Love?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 17, 2009

The story of miserable people living miserable lives without redemption, humor or hope.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2009

A raw and uncompromising drama with considerably limited appeal ... leaves a lasting impression, though it's rarely easy to watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2009

It's not as if we learn anything or feel any insight or catharsis from watching his characters destroy themselves and others.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2009

Survivor's guilt jumps a generation in Boaz Yakin's bleak family portrait, an incendiary journey back into the psychic horrors of the Holocaust.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2009

The failure of the movie is hardly attributable to Lucas, or co-stars Jacqueline Bisset and Lukas Haas. I'm afraid the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of writer-director Boaz Yakin.

| Jul 15, 2009

What makes pretentious, low-budget-indie filmmakers think the world is waiting breathlessly to absorb their personal memoirs like groundbreaking new recipes for meatballs?

Full Review | Jul 15, 2009

A fascinating mess: sprawling, passionate, conflicted, confused...It may not be a film with a lot of clarity to its vision, but it definitely has vision, which is rare.

| Jul 15, 2009

A stagy, melodramatic, and downright effective story about the way a mother's pain is passed on to her brood.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 13, 2009

A pretentious and stilted but weirdly compelling blend of sins-of-the-parent saga and horror movie.

| Jul 13, 2009

Apparently so personal that it feels as though it were hatched in a hermetically sealed capsule, Boaz Yakin's Death in Love is as ambitious as it is stultifying and deadly to watch.

| Jan 29, 2008

Boaz Yakin's dark drama is about the legacy of pain.

| Jan 25, 2008

Pierces the senses.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2008