Emma Westenberg’s Bleeding Love is a moving father-daughter drama that also might just be one of the scariest films I’ve ever seen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2025

The fater daugfhter acting team provides some emotional pull to the story.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 5, 2024

This is clearly a very personal project for both McGregors, and that is often felt in Ewan and Clara’s tender performances opposite each other, which are naturalistic and honest in both their nerviness and initial awkwardness around one another.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2024

You can feel the history that exists between this father and daughter pairing through the performances and the seemingly mundane conversations they have, which are evidently tip-toeing around the various elephants in the room.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2024

The decision to take the road more traveled robs the film of the chance to find interesting detours of its own and leaves a lot of territory unexplored, but the chemistry between its charming leads is ultimately enough to keep the engine ticking over

| Jul 4, 2024

Road movie with stunt casting that gets under its own wheels

| Original Score: 2 | Jun 2, 2024

Decent performances from both McGregors can’t breathe much spirit (alcoholic or otherwise) into the film’s listless and generic screenplay.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2024

There’s no dramatic tension, our protagonists whine a lot and they seem, at best, like two solipsistic twits driving around the desert and moaning about parenting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 12, 2024

We’ve followed this kind of bicker-and-heal therapeutic arc so many times now, the onus falls on all involved to spike it with truth, or at least novelty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2024

The film is by no means offensive or unenjoyable, but one wonders what could have been with more trust in the journey, not the destination.

| Apr 11, 2024

This unbearably cute joint selfie of a movie is gruesomely indulgent and entitled from the first; it allows Ewan McGregor little or no opportunity to show his natural wit and flair and there is oddly no real chemistry between him and his co-star.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 10, 2024

A series of exhausted, trite, strained relationship, addiction, and reconnection tropes that are screaming with conventionality.

| Apr 8, 2024

[The] shift between earthy realism and more heightened melodrama is sometimes jaggedly awkward, but the McGregors play each scene with raw honesty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2024

With different leads this journey could have dragged, but both Ewan and Clara are electrifying, their close relationship off-screen seeping into their hugely convincing performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2024

This is a bit of a sledgehammer. It's really surprising... By the end, you're in a very scarred place, but a better place.

| Mar 5, 2024

... With McGregor (retaining his Scottish accent for once) bringing a quiet, lived-in authority to his part that the film around him struggles to match.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2024

Credible performances from real-life father and daughter Ewan McGregor and Clara McGregor carry this uneven road-trip drama during its weaker moments. If you want a more realistic look at how addiction affects families, watch any episode of Intervention.

| Mar 2, 2024

Both Ewan and Clara McGregor are on top form in this exploration of a broken bond between father and daughter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2024

A film that leaves viewers with a sense of hope and release, Bleeding Love works to examine the ties that bind and the pain one must face to overcome.

| Mar 2, 2024

A part of me hoped that the two McGregors actually did get the broken parts of their relationship worked out by making this movie, but putting your therapy on screen like this has a tendency to feel self-indulgent, even if the intention is to help others.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2024