Love Liza's success can be traced back to Hoffman's uncompromising exploration of irreconcilable pain.

| Feb 18, 2021

Fans of Phillip Seymour Hoffman simply must see this film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 15, 2020

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a strong performance that slightly elevates this minor film (written by his brother) above its narrow scope and small-scale production.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 24, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 11, 2003

A bela performance de Hoffman prejudicada pelo roteiro irregular, que o obriga a passar por mudanas sbitas e inexplicveis, como se a necessidade de arrancar lgrimas do espectador fosse maior do que o interesse em buscar coeso para a histria.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2003

Lays grief on with a thickness that smothers.

| Original Score: C | Jun 7, 2003

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 28, 2003

Love Liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2003

Love Liza doesn't leave us with redemptive speeches or somber homilies but with a hard-earned sense of something moving down deep, below the apparent emptiness

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 18, 2003

Despite the film's bizarre developments, Hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 14, 2003

Pointless claptrap that wastes those fine performances in service of a story that's all too predictable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Hoffman's performance provides the emotional release his brother's script and Louiso's direction try to deny us.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Hoffman is a terrific character actor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2003

The film skillfully taps into the desire to watch the slow burn in its entirety.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2003

It comes the closest to any movie experience I've had in re-creating the aftermath of unexplained suicide.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Hoffman's unfettered performance beautifully captures Wilson's sad, manic quality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2003

Largely this sad story is handled with a morbidity and monotony that go nowhere -- certainly not toward understanding.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 7, 2003

This is a film that succeeds on the strength of its acting, which is uniformly brilliant.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2003