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

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

A phenomenal, heart-breaking performance from Jeff Bridges powers this simple but affecting redemption story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2010

This turn from the perennially settled and contented Bridges is pure acting. It is the best performance of the past 12 months, and indeed possibly the next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2010

A wonderfully easy, confident and muscular performance from Jeff Bridges - so easy, confident and muscular that it doesn't look like acting at all - saves this movie from being pure sentimental mush.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2010

Cooper's film may not make all the right choices, but it's got Bridges, and it's always got the songs, among which Ryan Bingham's The Weary Kind stands out for its haunting, choked melancholy. It's an experience you want to indulge, and that isn't hard.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2010

It's not possible to flaw Bridges here. Akin to Falstaff, the detail of his characterisation - from stagger to cough to swagger to song - is fascinating. But he needs more thorough contextualisation to fly.

Full Review | Feb 19, 2010

The film's Texas and New Mexico landscapes are ravishing, and the songs are beautifully performed, but these offer little more than occasional relief from a very obvious tale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2010

You'd have to be crazier than Joaquin Phoenix to see this film as ground-breaking. But when it's good, it ain't too bad at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2010

The first-time writer-director Scott Cooper sets a gentle, unhurried pace as he unfolds the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2010

Despite being a character study, a May-to-December romance and a slow-moving musical relationship drama, this is still one of those films in which 'nothing much happens' - but, as such, it's a very, very good one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2010

Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake truly embodies the phrase Oscar worthy performance... Crazy Heart is great and wonderfully worth seeing, but Jeff Bridges performance in it, is not to be missed.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 17, 2010

This is a sad little story, told rather indulgently by the writer-director. Bridges and Gyllenhaal are superior to the film in which they appear.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 15, 2010

The movie belongs entirely to Bridges, who won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama. His inimitable Jeff-isms have never been more endearing - the sloppy gait, the whiskey glass balanced on his chest, his general air of discombobulation.

| Jan 22, 2010

Crazy Heart is a familiar tune, but the harmonies reverberate.

Full Review | Jan 20, 2010

When a movie offers you a couple of hours with a drunk, he better be a charmer. And even then, it's a gamble; we've all known charming drunks, but a little can go a long way. Fortunately for Crazy Heart, it has Jeff Bridges, who brings enough charm and ve

| Jan 15, 2010

In a musical genre where emotional authenticity is essential, Bridges is a great enough actor to make us believe these songs could be his own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2010

It's a bit too easy, a bit too familiar, and maybe even a bit too much fun. But the easy magic Bridges brings to the screen makes it all work.

| Original Score: B | Jan 15, 2010

Some goodwill evaporates in the final reel, when a few false endings lead to a choice that's not the best one for Crazy Heart, but the generosity of Bridge's performance puts us in a forgiving mood.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 15, 2010