It's a pleasure to spend time with these characters, but be warned, their story packs an emotional wallop.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Sachs takes Love is Strange into a territory where elliptical storytelling puts a stranglehold on any chance of building an affection for Ben and George.

| Original Score: 2.8/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Director Ira Sachs delivers what is perhaps his most heartfelt and warmly observed film thus far.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Sachs has crafted something universal and resonant, a Bittersweet, funny and ultimately moving film that shows that even though love may be strange, it's never anything short of beautiful.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Charming, warming and occasionally frustrating. Love is Strange is transformed from a warm stage play into an honest, beautiful love story by its two outstanding leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2019

... in subtle ways, Love Is Strange keeps pointing out the traces of homophobia that exist in large and small degrees in our supposedly "post-gay" culture.

| Nov 20, 2018

As dire as things become, there's an elegance to the way it all unfolds with cinematographer Christos Voudouris making New York feel as loosely comfortable as he made Greece appear in "Before Midnight".

| Nov 20, 2018

Lithgow and Molina convey the body language of a longtime couple to such a degree that they effortlessly become part of the film's fabric.

| Aug 22, 2018

This is Rent for the It's Complicated generation, a subtle, meandering movie about how one's life can slowly slide away.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2018

The premise is vast but merely swirls around topics peripherally.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 2, 2017

Ultimately, nothing in the story adds up to much.

| Aug 30, 2017

Love Is Strange is an extraordinary achievement in the purest sense of the word extraordinary, for it transcends the ordinary by luxuriating in it with wonderfully oddball rhythms.

| Aug 4, 2017

Yes, love is strange, but thank the heavens for that. In a world where lives are increasingly swayed by mortgages and job security, the nonsensical weirdness of love may be our only salvation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2016

Pivoting on a loving couple growing older, not having finances in place, needing to rely on others to get by, Love Is Strange has universal poignancy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2016

True to Sachs' style, the movie isn't designed as an actor's showcase. We're not supposed to notice the acting here -- just the people.

| May 23, 2016

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina... deliver wonderful performances as long-in-love older gents kept apart by the real estate market (a familiar story, and not just in New York, it seems).

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 23, 2016

Pitch-perfect acting and a fine control of high emotion that never slips into treacly sentiment distinguish this small and lovely ensemble piece by writer-director Ira Sachs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2016

Sachs understands [Lithgow and Molina's] consummate skills as actors; putting them together, the result is wonderfully warm and wise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2016

A timely New York story for any orientation, Love is Strange is Ira Sachs' most accessible film, until its frustrating ending.

| Original Score: B | Mar 28, 2016

Molina and Lithgow's relationship is one of the most convincing in recent memory and it's thanks to their tender performances that the film is such a success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2015