Sylvie's Love is a soulful film that feels like everything La La Land couldn't accomplish with its characters.

| Aug 30, 2023

At times, it can feel like this film is employing very familiar plot points for a romantic drama. However, it takes those narrative aspects and heightens them where so many others have not.

| May 2, 2023

Everything about “Sylvie’s Love” screams classic Hollywood romance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Sylvie's Love never feels like a contemporary filmmaker taking a postmodern jab at the past, even though that's under the surface. Rather, the film contains a constant thrust of nostalgia and romanticizes an outmoded filmmaking style.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 17, 2022

An unabashedly sweet movie that dares to be about a couple of people who fall in love, face difficulties, and work their way to a happy ending.

| Jul 16, 2021

Sylvie's Love, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha as the pair of star-crossed lovers, is sweet, gentle, and simplistically beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2021

The costumes, the decor, the music, all make for an immersive experience matched by the film's sweet, simmering love story.

| Jun 25, 2021

It's a fairytale of a love story, with well-worn morals of staying true to yourself and following your heart...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2021

An elegant, charming, mature love story anchored by two great lead performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021

[I]t feels good to watch a movie with Black characters where we don't have to watch them in pain or suffer under the boot heel of racial injustice.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 3, 2021

A cool, funky kind of vibe...the sky is the limit for Tessa Thompson...

| Mar 2, 2021

Every element does what it's supposed to: make the audience feel and swoon.

| Mar 1, 2021

A stylishly moody period drama riffing on love and desire both romantic and professional.

| Feb 20, 2021

I love Tessa Thompson and her portrayal of Sylvie.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Feb 20, 2021

Like the great Douglas Sirk melodramas... "Sylvie's Love" is unabashedly sentimental and just gorgeous to behold - but the difference here is the terrific ensemble cast is primarily Black and Latinx.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2021

Sylvie's Love is a soaring, swooning, old-school throwback that's primarily concerned with wrapping the audience in a sumptuous cinematic blanket of jazz, ambition, and starry-eyed enchantment. And boy, does it ever.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 20, 2021

Despite Thompson's efforts, "Sylvie's Love" eventually collapses under too many plot mechanisms.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 20, 2021

Boy meets girl Girl and falls in love. If only it were this easy. While not so simple, Sylvie's Love is a love story taking place in turbulent times but not draped in trauma.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 20, 2021

It's resplendent & swoon-worthy, but there's something wanting. Somehow it lacks the depth I was expecting, but the two leads have a dazzling chemistry + there are enough here to keep you engaged in their romantic journey.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 16, 2021

During an age where Black love stories weren't told in this matter, it's great that we've arrived at a place where it can be done.

| Feb 13, 2021