Bening and Harris sustain most of the scenes, turning the affair into an affable and pleasant experience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 15, 2023

A grown up look at grief, love and aging.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The absence of a thorough backstory will either leave you feeling as though the film is a throwback to less convoluted storytelling, or a soap opera, depending on your taste. With the electric Bening and Harris at the helm, it hardly matters...

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 18, 2019

What sours the pot is the film's script, which tells the story in such a meandering, unfocused fashion that the film loses us as the character's actions descend into nonsensicality.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 3, 2019

... breathtakingly simple but yet so powerful in conveying grief and what it's like for the person left behind.

| Aug 22, 2018

Even really fine actors like Annette Benning and Ed Harris can't do much with this ludicrous doppelganger story.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 27, 2017

... the material repeatedly shies away from the eeriness and unease the intriguing premise deserves-this could have been melodrama of a higher order.

| Oct 12, 2017

This thoughtful, if slightly melodramatic, film is a throwback to the four hankie pictures of the 1940s...

| Sep 16, 2017

The Face of Love quickly accumulates emotional subplots that distract from this central idea.

| Original Score: D | Jun 21, 2016

Bening and Harris pour so much genuine emotion into their roles in this Vertigo-like romantic melodrama that they just about carry the film's fanciful premise.

| Jan 11, 2015

Both leads take on the task of the dysfunctional couple admirably, but their efforts crash against a stubbornly creaky script.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2014

Sadly, this all feels like a wasted effort.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2014

The actors, though, lift the material. The most poignant performance comes from the late Robin Williams in a cameo as Nikki's neighbour and friend.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2014

Middle-aged romances are rare on the big screen, so it's frustrating that this one is so badly compromised by a series of contrived plot points.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2014

The story's plausibility is stretched in places, but it is held together by Bening and Harris, both of whom are wholly convincing at all times.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2014

Perhaps it needed a young M Night Shyamalan to endow it with some final whiplash twist.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2014

A soapy but stirring romance with two committed leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2014

Interesting set-up, but follow-through doesn't quite work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2014

Assumes the guise of a compelling psychological drama, taking in grief and obsession and overcoming its cheesier moments to deliver something unexpectedly powerful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2014

The Face of Love is light on impact ... and could have been so much more than it wound up being.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 8, 2014