So it doesn't cut it as a tale of erotic desperation, but stylistically? Tediously pretentious, padded out as it is with slo-mo sequences that are neither moody nor relevant and young people delivering overwritten speeches about love.

| Aug 31, 2018

It's likeable enough, though there's far too much slow motion.

| May 28, 2011

A subtle and painfully amusing battle of wills.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2011

Lushly, not to say swishly made, the whole thing is really just a pseudo-poetic trifle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2011

There is something rather flimsy about Heartbeats. That said, it certainly shows that Dolan has quite a career ahead of him.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2011

Hipster's delight.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2011

Dolan has a gift but he hasn't fully unwrapped it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2011

It can seem as if style is all in Dolan's films, but as well as revelling in its pleasures, they also dissect its limitations - sometimes without anaesthetic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2011

A fizzing delight that tips a nod to the masters of the French New Wave without sacrificing its identity or sense of freshness. Recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2011

Ultimately what makes "Heartbeats" tick is that it's less about love objects and more about friends who are stuck with each other, for better or worse.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2011

Spends 100 minutes dispensing painful examples of how infatuation turns people into idiots.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2011

Alas, although Heartbeats is quite lovely to look at, there isn't much going on after all.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2011

"Heartbeats" charts its own course.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2011

A pretty decent film in its own right, and a remarkably good one if you consider the filmmaker turns 22 this month.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2011

My main issue? Marie and Francis, for all their twenty-something familiarity and vulnerability, are as unlikable a pair of main characters as any I could have imagined.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2011

All the dramatic protraction gets at both a heaviness of romantic desire and emotional viscosity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2011

Dolan is proving to be adept at and unafraid of teasing out the flaws of his characters, seemingly more concerned with whether they are interesting than whether an audience will like them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2011

It's a bright, slight romp that seems to want to zero in on the pain and trauma of romantic obsession. If the filmmaker weren't having such fun mocking characters who fall hard while pretending not to, it might just be able to achieve that.

| Original Score: 7 | Mar 1, 2011

The triangulations of their desire are amusing but Dolan, as a director, is all attitude.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 26, 2011

There's a lot that works in Heartbeats -- so much that its flaws stand out in disappointingly sharp relief.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Feb 25, 2011