A film about being overwhelmed, as much as it's an overwhelming film, and it's the most excitingly exhausting kind of too much.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2020

Clocking in at 237 minutes, Sino's film possesses a rambling, free-associative structure.

| Jun 17, 2013

Manga-indebted but without lens trickery, this is exhilarating cinema experience.

| Dec 1, 2011

This four-hour opus about the fury of love and the love of fury is ritually fascinating, often excessive and, with a caution the film wields like a blade, achingly poignant.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2011

The more you can let this amazing, unbelievable film overwhelm you, the better.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2011

Exhibiting astonishing dexterity, Mr. Sono shapes all this trauma into a narrative that's completely coherent and surprisingly touching, never more so than in Yu's struggle toward sexual maturity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2011

It's a campy rampage that runs a few minutes shy of four hours, dooming what otherwise would likely be a bright future as a midnight movie.

| Sep 1, 2011

As the old cliche goes, you will not have another moviegoing experience quite like this one all year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 1, 2011

Love Exposure is, in a sense, Shion Sono's equivalent of the Great Russian novel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 31, 2011

Love Exposure plays like a marathon greatest-hits-and-misses mixtape. If you see only one Sono film, check out this flick; you will have then seen them all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2011

Would the film be easier to take in a more condensed form? Of course it would, but then it wouldn't be the singularly overwhelming oddity that it is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2011

It's different, but it's exhausting. Without ever being funny, it keeps up a strident, cartoonish tone for all of its four hours.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2009

A strange, deftly scripted brew, alternately involving and distancing, and often very funny.

| Nov 6, 2009

A colourful four-hour rom-com that feels both small and intimate. And it's never dull for a second.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2009

Complicated and long but deftly handled adventure/caper/satire that ends up being thoroughly entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2009

A swooning, often riotously funny melodrama charged with a refreshingly perverse undertow.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2009

Curious and tasteless, but never dull.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2009

Deeply strange and politically incorrect, baffling, and often funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2009

It's as mad as a box of frogs, but a strain of melancholy romance adds emotional backbone to the gags, gore and kung fu.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2009

A graphic mixture of violence, heartache, sex and kung fu, Love Exposure is not for all tastes but there are wonderful moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2009