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

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Brave and admirable for the trust that it puts in a viewer's intuition and willingness in going along with it right through to its rewarding finish. Read full review

  • 75
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Too long (and it sure ain't taut), but it brims with passion. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe |

    It's messy, but in the end satisfying, a film worth making, a journey worth taking. Read full review

  • 70
    Salon.com | Stephanie Zacharek

    It's made with an accurate and loving, but also wary and squinty-eyed, view of the South. If only the movie hung together better overall. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | David Rooney

    A flawed and overlong but ultimately affecting account of one man's struggle to regain control of his life. Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Howard luxuriates in writerly misery as Barlow, and the participation of the filmmaker's real-life wife, Debra Winger, as Barlow's ex gives the scenes between the two of them an unfakeable erotic charge. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Brown, is a good enough actor and director to keep the film afloat for long stretches. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow. I can't. Big Bad Love can, and is filled with characters who love and accept him, even though he is a full-time, gold-plated pain in the can. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Beneath its stylistic and structural quirks, Big Bad Love -- is a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence. Read full review

  • 25
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    If the point of this umpteenth posttraumatic stress drama is that war is hell, even years after it's over and you're sitting in a movie theater, Big Bad Love makes it. Read full review

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