Love, Antosha Reviews
Though clearly an adoring tribute, Love, Antosha allows its subject a sort of complicated humanity that expands our understanding of him.
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 19, 2019
It serves as both a celebration of Yelchin's life and a tribute to his parents, particularly his mother. That infuses the film with a warmth and compassion that keeps it from feeling like a funeral-service memorial.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 4, 2019
Mostly, the Antosha of "Love, Antosha" seems like a good kid: someone whose life -- and tragic death -- should inspire us to spend our brief time here as wisely and as well as he did.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2019
It's very powerful and also very sad.
| Aug 23, 2019
The title is how the immigrant's child closed his frequent and heartfelt letters to his fiercely devoted mother Irina, and the film plays a bit like her loving reply: a tribute to the son whose grave she still visits daily.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2019
Unfortunately, Love, Antosha, while providing the requisite information, never rises above a sapling.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 22, 2019
Price has given us Yelchin's most complete performance: himself. It is a cinematic gift to contemporary film fans everywhere.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2019
[An] affectionate, heartbreaking documentary...
| Aug 8, 2019
"Love, Antosha" manages to be both a deeply sad farewell and a fascinating introduction.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019
Yelchin was fighting to fill every waking moment with art, making it and absorbing it, and his many journal entries (narrated by Nicolas Cage, giving one of his best performances in many years) reveal great insight and emotional depth.
| Aug 2, 2019
With Love Antosha, there's now a coda to Yelchin's story beyond somber headlines and obits.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 2, 2019
It's a film made with as much love for its subject as the subject harbored for his friends and family.
| Aug 2, 2019
"Love, Antosha" gives Yelchin's co-workers and the people who knew him best a chance to describe what made him so extraordinary.
| Aug 1, 2019
Love, Antosha isn't a sad film...but instead is meant to inspire, uplift, and ultimately prove that Yelchin was better than anybody could have dreamed of.
| Jul 29, 2019
Understandably a document of what was lost, but it also serves as a reminder of the impact one can have even in such a comparatively small window of time.
| Feb 5, 2019
A touching and surprising portrait of an actor who had much more going on in his life - from a serious illness to some seriously left-field artistic inclinations - than was mentioned in his obituaries.
| Jan 30, 2019
A rich reminiscence of a gifted actor who died far too young.
| Jan 28, 2019