Some love stories just don't hold up well

| Feb 28, 2024

The production values here are not very strong as the imagery is bland and unmemorable, the costumes don’t tell you anything about the characters and the production designers seemingly forgot what it was like to be a university student.

| Feb 9, 2023

It wears its heart on its sleeve and makes no apologies (remember what love means ...), and more than anything that is what audiences responded to then and continue to respond to today.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2021

The impact of Love Story cannot be overstated. Yet despite its touchstone status, it's not a particularly good film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 12, 2021

Love Story certainly isn't the first or the last romantic drama that will grace the big screen but it has that intangible 'it' quality that makes it one of the best.

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

A genuinely moving love story with vivid characters in a singularly cinematic romance.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Love Story is a three-handkerchief movie if you are hard boiled. Otherwise it rates six hankies.

| Apr 5, 2019

Ryan O'Neal gives the character of the neon scion a warmth and vulnerability entirely missing from the bestseller.

| Feb 8, 2018

MacGraw never could act her way out of a paper bag, but she dies very prettily, cuing Oscar winning violins and O'Neal's Big Scene.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2012

If you're going to make a serious tearjerker, somebody's got to die. It's in the handbook of romantic platitudes.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 24, 2012

Mega-hit of the 1970s is a real cringer today.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Guilty pleasure par excellence: How did this poorly-acted schmaltzy romantic melodrama ever get Best Picture Oscar nomination? Arthur Hiller's direction is inept, bringing out the novel's weaknesses instead of strengths.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 23, 2008

By the time O'Neal gets around to intoning the famous tag line, you'll be so sick of hearing Francis Lai's love theme that you'll want to strangle the projectionist.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 19, 2007

Love Story is an excellent film.

| Dec 19, 2007

Cornball classic weeper is at least true to its book basis.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2006

Dated before it was made.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 22, 2005

The only really depressing thing about Love Story is the thought of all of the terrible imitations that will inevitably follow it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2005

Hiller earns our emotional response because of the way he's directed the movie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004