Andie MacDowell gives the performance of her lifetime.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 15, 2020

In the end, however, LOVE AFTER LOVE is the kind of movie I respect but don't really enjoy. Grief can be numbing and LOVE AFTER is after a time as well.

| Nov 27, 2018

A gorgeously wrought drama, and hard to believe it's only Harbaugh's first, but it buzzes from the anxious energy that comes from searching for what's next

| Oct 23, 2018

So what does Love After Love deliver? Performances. Harbaugh and Mendelsohn are less interested with plot than creating an environment to let their characters screw up.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 28, 2018

I wish the pieces of Harbaugh's domestic jigsaw fit more elegantly together. Sometimes, it seems as if he's tripping into scenes the way a person might stumble into a darkened room before turning on the light.

| Apr 27, 2018

The film is a bit messy at times, but considering the circumstances on screen, that seems appropriate.

| Apr 27, 2018

The story of Love After Love is one of grieving, and it's about that process in a specific, particularly sad sort of way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2018

Maybe the most damaging factor is that [director Russ] Harbaugh does nothing to establish that the paterfamilias, first seen in reasonably good health at a family gathering, is such an emotional touchstone to his wife and sons.

| Apr 25, 2018

It's a film intentionally adrift, rambling between a loose succession of family gatherings and dinner parties with subdued style, the camera feeling like just another person at the edge of the room.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2018

An unflinching portrait of how grief can unravel a tightknit family in ways both banal and heart-wrenching.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 17, 2018

Challenging, unflinching and deeply honest.

| Apr 5, 2018

Yet this movie, for all its laudable aspects, left me wanting for more, a personally frustrating turn of events to say the least.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2018

Andie MacDowell [displays] one of the best performances of her career.

| Apr 2, 2018

First-time director Russell Harbaugh presents grief as it is, in all its pain and ugliness, rather than using the convenient, uplifting short-hand that Hollywood prefers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2018

I found it a great masochistic experience.

| Mar 30, 2018

This first-time feature from writer/director Russell Harbaugh has an understated, intimate, pointillist style, with a cool jazz score that matches its improvisational tone.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2018

Central to the film's vision of love and loss is a certain realism marked by unshowy performances, un-stagy mise-en-scne, and eye-level, frequently handheld camerawork.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 30, 2018

Writer-director Russell Harbaugh's Love After Love is a remarkably cool-headed, composed piece of work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2018

This unflinching debut feature from Russ Harbaugh delivers something rarely seen in American movies: a warts-and-all examination of extended grief.

| Mar 29, 2018

In its way, this small, handcrafted, and immaculately well-realized feature challenges the limited way that movies tend to depict loss.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 28, 2018