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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: An amazing little character study. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode, and brother Hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: A bleak little film, bold and well-intentioned in its unrelenting gaze on sorrow, but it never involves your emotions. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Mild thumbs down. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's hard to love Love Liza, Todd Louiso's well-crafted but grim exercise in misery, but hiding within it are moments of exquisite acting. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Louiso has a confident touch and a good eye, and there isn't a scene in the film that wasn't intelligently done. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: At its best the film has some of the unadorned, incisive strangeness of the minimalist American fiction of the 1980's, but it also shows the limitations of minimalism, and feels, even in its relative brevity, about half an hour too long. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The script isn't very good; not even someone as gifted as Hoffman (the actor) can make it work. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Determinedly modest in tone, Love Liza is a fiercely brave and honest work. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Largely this sad story is handled with a morbidity and monotony that go nowhere -- certainly not toward understanding. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Love Liza doesn't so much dramatize one character's process of mourning as string together arbitrarily strange scenarios that allow a performer to perform. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A picture as erratic as its central character. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: It is a warm, perceptive study of people who do curious things. Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Eerily accurate depiction of depression. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There is a kind of attentive concern that Hoffman brings to his characters, as if he has been giving them private lessons, and now it is time for their first public recital. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: This isn't an uplifting nor a profoundly memorable film, but it's honorable and honest enough to face a truth that Hollywood movies rarely deliver: that life sometimes deals us injuries from which we never recover. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Oddly, the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds, but strikes a tone that's alternately melancholic, hopeful and strangely funny. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Hoffman is understandably concerned about typecasting, but he is indeed the man for the job, recalling the intensity that Nicholas Cage brought to an Oscar-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Lisa Rinzler's cinematography may be lovely, but Love Liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout, maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Despite Hoffman's best efforts, Wilson remains a silent, lumpish cipher; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before. Read more