How wonderful it is to watch a film in 2020 that displays style and true enthusiasm for the art of movie-making.

| Feb 6, 2024

Shot in writer-director Robert Machoian's trademark 4:3 framing, with plenty of stylish but unfussy long, unbroken takes, The Killing of Two Lovers makes for a bumpy ride as Crawford's troubled David tries to plot a course back to reconciliation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2023

The performances are divine, the subject matter is sometimes heart-breaking yet always captivating, and the use of long takes and negative space elevate this movie to an extremely high level.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2023

This is a terribly overlooked film featuring an even more overlooked lead performance from Clayne Crawford...

| May 1, 2023

It's a film built on moments of tension and release more than plot and dialogue, a good representation of how muddled things can get, and how useless words can be, when a relationship is in jeopardy.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 28, 2022

Rather than descending into a genre exercise inflected with indie aesthetics, The Killing of Two Lovers weighs the emotional strain and vulnerability of marriage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

[Displays] both the dangers of trifling with a sacred covenant, and the valor of fighting to restore it.

| Jan 26, 2022

Robert Machoian's terse filming style is given to wide angles and dramatically long takes that ratchet up the tension with the technical skill of a bravura action filmmaker.

| Jan 3, 2022

...we don't know what the distressed main character is capable of-and he doesn't either.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2021

The devil isn't in the detail here - the minutiae is the entire movie, and what an unflinching, evocative and heady vision of yearning and emotionally churning it is.

| Sep 19, 2021

Writer-director Robert Machoian... explores this poisoned soil of male rage with some thoughtful observations.

| Sep 16, 2021

A film about fresh, raw, emotional torture. Staged like a thriller, but ultimately about the stale resentment of a breakup.

| Sep 14, 2021

...frequently grasps at greatness.

| Original Score: 19/20 | Aug 26, 2021

The filmmaking is just superb. I love a movie where you learn so much just from the camera in the first five minutes.

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

Crackles with dread, until it doesn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2021

Not a film for everybody, but if you start it you'll absolutely watch through the end. Quite literally breathtaking.

| Jun 23, 2021

Awkward, challenging, and even sordid at times, The Killing of Two Lovers has a depth and dramatic focus rare in contemporary cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2021

Overall, it's a potent snapshot of a marriage in one of its most emotionally conflicting stages.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 19, 2021

Machoian maintains this simmering tension throughout, and the unsettling result is more akin to a horror movie, as The Killing of Two Lovers portrays the ever-present danger of a man scorned.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2021

The Killing of Two Lovers tears a page from the Kelly Reichart playbook (if you're gonna steal, steal from the best).

| Original Score: B | Jun 11, 2021