…manages to capture the nuances of Munro’s prose and deliver an uncontrived character study…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2023

There is no magic formula to what makes this a good movie. It’s simply a collaboration between filmmakers and performers who know how to tell a smart and focused story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Decent performances are overshadowed by lackluster presentation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2019

The film Hateship Loveship is a study in earnestness. To some degree that is a function of our times.

| Aug 4, 2017

It's a film about healing; about burnt-out yang being weeded, fertilized, and watered by yin, to grow a relationship tree. But, like, a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2016

Despite its seemingly canned plot, [it] commits to delivering a glimpse into that truth spiced with the joy of optimism rather than the easy placebo of certainty.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 6, 2016

Hateship Loveship is by no means a bad film, but it's an unfortunately easy one.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Aug 15, 2014

Director Liza Johnston elicits some very affecting performances from her talented actors but these are in service to [Wiig's] rather colorless character whose blossoming is a bit hard to fall for.

| Jun 28, 2014

...a remarkably delicate portrait of a shy, recessive but ultimately unsinkable woman entirely free of self-pity that confirms the remarkable watchability of Kristen Wiig.

| Original Score: 89/100 | May 26, 2014

Punchless drama stars a serious Wiig

| May 15, 2014

My problem is I never believed what was happening was love.

| Original Score: C+ | May 12, 2014

A slow-to-develop but nonetheless tantalizing sampling of the depth of Kristen Wiig's talent, one that hints at what may to come from her.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2014

Wiig's underplaying, a repressed otherworldly Sissy Spacek sort of thing, has its moments of humor, but this proud, simple woman is never for an instant comic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2014

It doesn't take long for us to get lost in Wiig's thorough portrayal of a dowdy housekeeper who must soldier on in the face of a cruel prank to find some kind of love in her life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 1, 2014

Kristen Wiig delivers a splendid dramatic performance here. She simply becomes a plain, unobtrusive woman with immense inner strength.

| Apr 27, 2014

Another of the wan so-called 'indie' films that distributors accumulate at what must be some sort of post-Sundance clearance sale.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2014

Liza Johnson's nicely tuned, and turned, adaptation of the Alice Munro short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2014

We've never seen a protagonist quite like Johanna, who on the one hand personifies female self-abnegation at its most domesticated, but on the other embodies the sheer will at its most stubborn.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2014

Short fiction can be a marvelous blueprint for film and revisiting Nobel Prize-winner Munro's story in this era of "catfishing" makes a lot of sense: People are no less desperate for connection than they ever have been.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2014

Slow-moving drama has some sex, drinking, language.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2014