Despite his overtly sloven nature, Bridges still manages to imbue his signature charm to help "Bad" be presentable in any situation. There's a pain suppressed deep behind the booze and packs of cigarettes that Bridge can effortlessly sell the audiences.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 20, 2025

The film glides by with an unassuming pace, with flashes of tenderness, humour and heartbreak.

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

Bridges has played characters like this all-time-low type before, most notably in The Fisher King, except none of them have the same sense of drained and desperate humanity that he displays here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 28, 2023

Crazy Heart is a respectable hit. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 8, 2022

Episode 11: Moving On

| Original Score: 55/100 | Sep 1, 2021

Crazy Heart is too sentimental and predictable to be a classic, but the songs are impressively authentic and Bridges delivers a superb performance.

| Nov 29, 2020

One of the best films of 2009.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

What keeps this indie drama just the right side of average is a brilliantly measured, Oscar-winning performance by the great Jeff Bridges.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2020

Crazy Heart has the mellow, believable gait of real life, and sometimes the truth is better than any reassuring fiction.

| Jan 23, 2020

Do yourself a favor. Just go crazy this weekend. Go crazy for CRAZY HEART.

| Nov 6, 2019

Truly, the entire cast is tremendous-with the glaring exception of Farrell, who is woefully miscast. But Bridges carries the film on his capable shoulders, appearing in every scene, many times alone.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 13, 2018

The earnest charm, the moments of clarity and regret, and the amazing talent he imbues Blake with make us long for the singer's redemption. Sadly, his path of deliverance is not nearly as engaging or authentic as the man himself.

| Oct 4, 2018

This is a story that's been told a thousand times, sometimes with Kris Kristofferson in it, and sometimes not, and it just doesn't bring anything new to the party.

| Aug 30, 2018

Crazy Heart is a wonderful picture that will immediately affect you and hold your interest to the very end.

| Jan 16, 2018

With great performances from Bridges and Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart is a winner and a must-see.

| Original Score: 5.0/5 | Oct 30, 2012

Basically a live-action version of the cliche country-western song with a man down on his luck and losing everything in his life, it comes close to being a joke about itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 22, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Bridges' worn down country singer is as well realized as any character he's ever done. It may take a while to get going, and to develop, and to wrap up, but there's enough meat to make Crazy Heart worthwhile, even if it is made to last a while.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 18, 2011

Played by a gracefully aging Jeff Bridges, Bad is an older, greasier and groggier version of The Dude

| Jan 31, 2011

Cooper is so afraid of being bold and baring some soul, he achieves little more than the anachronistic, cookie-cutter blues that his lead character spent a lifetime trying to avoid.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 21, 2010