I don't understand this movie.

| Apr 29, 2020

It was a mildly enjoyable dumb.

| Apr 29, 2020

The time spent exploring each character arc is unbalanced, costing exposition and development in some cases, while over-indulging others.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2019

Love the Coopers is a disastrous holiday film, filled with false cheer and contrived drama meant to bring everyone together, but will only drive you away.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 5, 2019

One suspects the filmmakers aimed to bring edifying tears to audiences' eyes by the end, but with its overly sentimental approach, LOVE THE COOPERS also puts viewers at risk of hating themselves come the next morning.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 30, 2019

This Yuletide bomb isn't a movie to watch as much as survive.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 29, 2018

Alas, this star-studded, multi-stranded misfire fails on all fronts.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2017

... a searing portrait of holiday-driven despair, a ruthless and harrowing look at emotional burnout and the soul-crushing playacting demanded by the holiday season.

| Oct 9, 2017

Taking what should be recognition of love and family and the fortune of being happy and healthy and together and disemboweling that of its guts and soul has created the most nihilistic holiday film of all time.

| Original Score: F | Aug 16, 2017

If you think this looks like an uplifting Christmas story about the love of family, think again. Sure, it wants to be, but instead it's a depressing mess.

| Mar 23, 2017

There was something about Love the Coopers that didn't just leave me cold and disappointed... it also made me mad.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 10, 2017

The ensemble give the scant material their all, and this may be Olivia Wilde's most impressive performance to date, but the contrived plot, forced sentimentality and painfully predictable climax overshadow their work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2016

Love the Coopers reminds us that there are few things worse than booze-fuelled family gatherings, but one of them is definitely schmaltzy Hollywood movies about such reunions.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 6, 2016

Charmless, confusing and utterly embarrassing, this could and should have been a lot more than just another run-of-the-mill Christmas flick which we're soon to forget.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 31, 2016

Only occasionally does a moment ring true, thanks largely to talented actors subduing a balky script like parents wrestling a petulant kid onto Santa's lap.

| Original Score: 2 of 5 | Mar 26, 2016

Full of embarrasing scenes that make you cringe, it's a shame that its director couldn't do best with the film's talented cast. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 2, 2016

It's a terrible waste of talent. Bah, humbug.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 23, 2016

It may take more risks than your standard Hallmark Channel Christmas movie, but for a holiday film, there's such little faith placed in our characters to live and breath.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 20, 2016

"Love the Coopers" isn't immune to a few over-the-top moments and it never met a well-trodden plot device it didn't like, but its unabashed heart and hopefulness is akin to a warm, cozy knitted throw.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2016

Lots of photogenic folks serve up white whine, usually weak laughs, or suddenly candid chats with strangers. The Hollywood contrivances are cringing. Dundering in its efforts to melt your heart to slush.

| Jan 9, 2016