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Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Suckers for romance likely won’t complain, but this Josh Hartnett time-travel epic is nuts.
- 30Village VoiceInkoo KangVillage VoiceInkoo KangBring a notebook and some tissues — the mission to protect the queen becomes a tangle of shifting alliances between local and British forces that might require visual aids, while the snail-slow realization of gloomy prophecies may well tear you up in boredom.
- 30Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenThere's a veil of artifice clinging to every aspect of The Lovers, a thoroughly unconvincing time-traveling epic costume drama pairing a miscast Josh Hartnett and Bollywood beauty Bipasha Basu.
- 30The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen Kenigsberg[An] inert, exasperatingly proportioned phantasmagoria from Roland Joffé.
- 25RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe scenic cinematography by Ben Nott is often beautiful, which distracts, at times, from the fact that the storyline is both convoluted in the most gratuitous way possible and that it’s enacted in the most unengaging way imaginable.
- 20Time OutDavid EhrlichTime OutDavid EhrlichForget that The Lovers doesn’t have the courtesy to be fun; no cosmic romance should be so deeply afraid to shoot for the stars. As one of the film’s many forgettable characters so eloquently puts it, “This stinks worse than an oyster’s fart.”
- 12Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardA shamelessly derivative and preposterous would-be blockbuster that goofily fashions itself as a sweeping romance, time-travel sci-fi tale, and gallant period piece all at once.