Jun 10, 2021Byond rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Although critics generally enjoyed this, many used words such as 'throwback', or 'A New York of an earlier time'.
I've heard that a classic is news that stays new, perhaps that applies here.
I don't mind fault finding, but I like it paired…
Sep 27, 2015JOSEPH SARDO rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Two Lovers is interesting and entertaining enough; but not great. I didn't quite buy into it but I did enjoy Phoenix's character, especially at certain points. I'd say worth a watch if you like movies that can at least hold your attention…
Jun 08, 2014BloomFree rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Two women - one glamourous golden-haired and not playing all her cards, the other brunette and showing all her cards. Creepy ending -- a practical decision based on the lead needing a steady boat. Troubling.
If you are interested we talked about this movie at the Carlingwood Library Film Club. We discuss three movies a month and we meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the Month.
Nov 14, 2012BertBailey rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A decent melodrama, marred only by a middling script that could have used some sharpening, and miscasting Joaquin Phoenix in the lead. This last is plausible in that the character is intense, troubled and bi-polar, but what doesn't quite…
Jul 08, 2012re_discover rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I liked the tension between the organized and the chaotic in this film. I think that Michelle represents both the ecstasy and the deep depression that is bi-polar disorder.
Leonard must find a balance between the two in order to…
Jun 20, 2012mjayh rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
The performances are excellent, but there's a credibility problem. The director wrote the screenplay loosely basing it, he said, on a story by Dostoevsky, and indeed it might have been more plausible set a century or so earlier when women…
Aug 26, 2009joseph rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Good – Two Lovers (2008) 110 min. Joaquin Phoenix plays melancholy in this film very well. He’s been recently dumped by his fiancée and is on an emotional rollercoaster with very deep valleys. Enter two women; one his parents introduced…
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