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Love Me If You Dare Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    45

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 30

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Mr. Samuell's stylistic revelries are meant as comments on the conventions and excesses of movie romance, but his approach is glib and self-congratulatory. No feelings dwell beneath the layers upon layers of faux-naïve artifice. I dare you to sit through this movie and not wish you were somewhere else.

  • 40

    out of 100

    Variety Lisa Nesselson

    Valiant attempt to create a modern fairytale ends up being frustratingly creepy instead of haunting and memorable.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    The film is loaded with striking visuals, high energy and all-stops portrayals from its actors, but for all of Samuell's imaginative cinematic bravura, it is, finally, mainly exasperating. Phooey on Julien and Sophie's excruciating l'amour fou.

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  • 42

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The award for the most annoying character to appear in a movie so far this year turns out to be a tie: It goes to both of the oh-so-swankly tormented romantic mischief makers of Love Me if You Dare.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Perhaps because the film makes me feel so crawly, it is actually good. Yet still I cannot like it.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    Whether you find its dual resolution hopelessly pretentious or profound depends on your tolerance for a certain strain of Gallic sentimentality that takes itself more seriously than it lets on.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    Despite the sterling performances by the two main actors, the movie tends to lose pace in the second half and needs more secondary characters. But for a first time in the director's chair, Samuell shows a deftness of touch that bodes well for the future.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    If you like romantic movies but find Hollywood's increasingly sterile formulas to be a poisonous bore, Love Me if You Dare offers an antidote.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

    It's a pitch-black, Grimm Brothers-style fable that enchants, frustrates and ultimately dares you to love it. Even if you don't, you'll be riveted.

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