...you can tell things aren't going to end well from the beginning, but the chemistry between the two stars just seemed to crackle off the screen like no other film I saw this year.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 31, 2024

If Rose Glass's debut Saint Maud was a tautly disciplined and focused horror film, Love Lies Bleeding is its polar opposite: a steamy lesbian romance, a crime-thriller with fantasy elements and a feminist statement that doesn't shy away from camp.

| Dec 28, 2024

Rose Glass's gory sensibility is put to good use in this steroid-popping, hyper-violent love story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass’ gloriously bizarre follow up to Saint Maud, is a marvellous feat of muscular filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

[Director Rose] Glass creates a visceral cinematic world to match the overheated emotions and erotic fantasies. The bleary saturated colors evoke the era and the area while a surreal quality seeps in...

| Aug 9, 2024

The fact remains, though, that this is very much a Rose Glass feature, and the filmmaker shows a firm and playful grip on genre storytelling that isn’t afraid to go to some strange, yet captivating places that are impossible not to admire.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2024

The revenge story, besides being archetypal, is tremendously familiar. The good thing, and what makes it shine, is that it has rarely been brought to the screen in such a special, unbound, and unique way.

| Aug 1, 2024

An extremely engaging, stylized, and watchable experience that makes excellent use of all of its assets.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 27, 2024

Love Lies Bleeding reaches engrossing levels in its connective thematic tissue, which is the interplay between love and violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2024

The film is immersive and funny, walking up to the chasm of obnoxiousness and looking over the edge and hocking a chunky loog down there without throwing itself in.

| Jul 22, 2024

An overheated neo-noir with two queer women at the center, Love Lies Bleeding blurs all barriers, resulting in an ecstatic—and sometimes nauseating—vision of liberation.

| Original Score: A | Jul 19, 2024

Gnarly and hair-raising, yet also intense and thought-provoking, it’ll leave viewers stunned from its intriguing opening to its darkly bizarre climax.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Glass’ sophomore picture is not as masterfully visceral as Saint Maude, but the rising filmmaker reveals herself as a gifted portrayer of emotional intimacies and wrenching acts of violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2024

I love noir and have forgiven even stupider plots than the one that Glass unleashes here, but I resent the way that she holds herself above the material.

| Jul 10, 2024

The fact that Love Lies Bleeding made every moment count, is the true strength of the movie.

| Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2024

Katy O'Brian dominates the screen as Jackie, and Ed Harris is the most revolting that he's ever been.

| Jul 5, 2024

a film that is as alluring as it is bruising, as ruthless as it is romantic. A provocative and potent Molotov cocktail of brawn, lust, and rage that is as intoxicating as the chartreuse drug injected throughout

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Punchy neo-noir... deliciously lurid, grainy butch opus... Sweat is viscous, not wet; when eyes meet, eyes match, as in the breath-stopping moment Lou first glimpses Jackie—Stewart watches, breathless, a caught breath, smile, stilled eyes.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

You can practically smell the sweat and feel the steroid needle prick your skin.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 4, 2024

This is only the second feature for Rose Glass, yet she’s already one of our most exciting new voices. She has an innate understanding of desperation, passion, and the human body, and a fearlessness in depicting each of them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2024