32
Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceDennis LimVillage VoiceDennis LimIt's the sort of movie that could haunt your dreams for weeks. In the end, it is, as promised, all about love—this brave, foolish, improbably moving film's great achievement may be the utter sincerity with which it lives up to its title.
- 63New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannA weird hybrid of cloning thriller and futuristic love story, with hints of "The Godfather" and "Ice Castles" - and it wears its disjointed nature like a badge of honor.
- 38New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsSurely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyThe experiment didn't work. The English-language production is a jumble of poorly delineated notions about love, celebrity, the look of romantic movies, and the sound of American-style dialogue - and it's been sitting on the shelf for over a year.
- 30VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyThe director doesn't display the spirit of a natural entertainer; while intellectual notions abound, he never grabs the audience by the hand to pull them into the tale emotionally.
- 30The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisA cringing romance that Mr. Vinterberg tries and fails to spin into a political allegory.
- 20Film ThreatFilm ThreatThere are so many things wrong with Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All about Love that if I wrote them down, this would be a five page review that would sound like a spiteful rant.
- 10L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorVinterberg's execution is overstuffed, unoriginal and often downright incomprehensible. And what's Sean Penn doing dangling off airplanes -- pontificating, as usual, from a great height?