20
There 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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
It'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.
10
Vinterberg'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?
38
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.
50
A stew of silliness that's so ridiculous it's almost entertaining. Almost.
30
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
A cringing romance that Mr. Vinterberg tries and fails to spin into a political allegory.
63
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
A 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.
30
The 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.