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Love Comes Lately Reviews
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011
A poignant valentine to the creativity of I.B. Singer's later years, with the pungent dialogue of the lively women coming directly from Singer's magic realism stories.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 3, 2008
| Original Score: B- | Oct 18, 2008
One of the best compliments to be paid a movie based on fiction is that it compels you to read other things by the author. Love Comes Lately is likely to elicit such a response.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2008
A film that might be called stubbornly magical.
| Jul 31, 2008
Fear of intimacy trumps fear of death in Love Comes Lately, filmmaker Jan Schtte's plaintively effective merging of three Isaac Bashevis Singer short stories.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2008
Schuttes combining of three separate stories serves only to spread Singer's thematic concerns too thin, thereby failing to achieve the richness of the original written material.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2008
The idea's not terrible, and no filmmaker has bothered with Singer for years, but this movie chooses to reduce the author's soulfulness to mirrored tales of lonely, randy seniors, all of whom Tausig plays. In one sense, it's a disservice.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2008
The plight of the aged is worthy of consideration, but a series of AARP fantasies do not a story make.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 13, 2008
As fast-paced as a canasta game in Boca Raton, Love Comes Lately drags on through a plot so contrived it could be a parody of one of Woody Allen's middle-era comedies.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 13, 2008
Max Kohn (Otto Tausig), the aging Lothario of Love Comes Lately, is very much like the movie itself: doddering and milquetoasty, but ultimately disarming.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2008
Eighty is the new Forty!
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2008
Schtte deftly juggles antic comedy, pathos, and melancholy.
Full Review | Jun 11, 2008
There have been several other films over the years based on Singer's works, but none with such relevance as Love Comes Lately...
Full Review | Jun 11, 2008
Swinging from solemn drama to farcical humor at a moment's notice, the proceedings rarely feel surefooted.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2008
A never less than astonishing procession of real and make-believe oddball characters joining one another for food or sex. A wildly buoyant tale of a geriatric imagination fired up on mental viagra.
| May 24, 2008
Isaac Bashevis Singer's spirit lives in the three, nicely interwoven stories.
| Original Score: B | May 14, 2008
Three stories involving essentially the same elderly man are slight, slight and slighter.
Full Review | Jan 28, 2008