An oddly hopeful movie set in on a dead Earth, Love Me is about how even a robot might wade through the mess of societal expectations, internet white noise, and chronic self-doubt, and be able to achieve the truly radical — self-acceptance.

| Feb 12, 2025

I rather enjoyed this. I had to let it overwhelm me because it's a bit of an interesting conception: thoughtful, funny, creative in terms of concept and execution.

| Feb 11, 2025

Still, every so often “Love Me” finds a certain feeling and tone, where we can feel the vastness of human longing and measure it against the yet greater vastness and consuming blackness of space.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2025

There are intriguing concepts at play and mesmerizing visuals, but the film feels a little tongue-tied.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2025

The Zucheros bring a great deal of imagination to the task, and the sheer audacity of the movie is enough to make it worth watching, even if, at times, the gadgets’ sentimental education starts to feel repetitive.

| Jan 31, 2025

“Love Me” is an empty-calories movie with not much food for thought.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2025

Stewart and Yeun hold the eye, but the film overinvests in their human avatars.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2025

The questions the film asks about human nature and romantic relationships are nothing new for the sci-fi genre (or the rom-com one). But the way it asks those questions zings with welcome touches of originality.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 30, 2025

Disappointing in its curiously narrow gaze and clunky emotional exposition.

| Jan 30, 2024

It’s a daringly weird debut, executed with real style and vision. It’s an oddity that’s bound to appeal to fans of similarly strange high-concept love stories.

| Jan 30, 2024

Stewart and Yeun really click as their characters — also seen at times in corporeal and animated forms — puzzle out what it means to experience all kinds of human emotions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2024

The further Love Me develops its scenario, the less plausible it becomes, even by lovelorn sci-fi standards.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 27, 2024

The plot can be surprisingly predictable at times, but Love Me finds a new way to poke at an age-old question, one that is apparently destined to resonate long after we’re gone.

| Jan 26, 2024

A breathtaking, joyful, and profound examination of the nature of consciousness and the meaning of life, Love Me takes a premise that sci-fi authors has been exploring for decades and finds a whole new approach.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 25, 2024

"Love Me" falters in maintaining a cohesive and focused narrative, deviating into less compelling territory.

| Jan 25, 2024

Stewart and Yeun are typically great, finding ways to make their progression from tech to human feel real, but “Love Me” too often feels like an idea in search of a movie.

| Jan 23, 2024

Love Me, despite having two incredibly expressive actors at its center, remains furiously literal-minded in its questioning. And unfortunately, the more questions this picture asks, the more maudlin and shallow it becomes.

| Jan 21, 2024

There’s a rich motherlode of ideas here involving identity, authenticity, humanity, and reality, but writer-director-partners Sam and Andy Zuchero submerge them under a talky and increasingly banal relationship drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2024

Taking two of the most magnetic actors on the planet, Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, and transforming them into emotionally stunted virtual avatars for more than half the running time is the least of the miscalculations.

| Jan 20, 2024

With their unnecessarily high-concept approach, the Zucheros seem to have taken the long way around the sun to arrive right back at Earth for a simple boy-meets-girl story.

| Jan 20, 2024