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Just Another Love Story
Metascore
69 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    It's interesting that two of the best thrillers of the last several months, "Tell No One" and Just Another Love Story, have come from Europe. Both movies gain because they star actors unfamiliar to us.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    A preposterous but beautifully polished Danish thriller.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    A creative mix of horror, noir and psychological thriller. At times the story defies logic, but viewers who can accept that will find themselves caught up in the film's intensity.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    75
    You can see this Danish offering as a sardonic update of familiar noir material, or simply as the story of the midlife crisis of a guy who wishes - or dreams, or dreads - that he's living out a grand drama. There are pleasures to be had either way.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    75
    A violent, melodramatic, feverishly overplotted tale of midlife crisis and crazy love. It's good, nasty fun until it gets boxed in by its own contrivances toward the end.
  6. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    You could call Just Another Love Story nothing more than an exercise in style, but A) Bornedal's got style to burn and B) that's not quite fair. Beneath all the dazzling cinematography, propulsive score and overcommitted acting, I found this movie an affecting, mordant comedy about male midlife crisis in its most extreme form.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    It may not go anywhere in particular, but it is as exciting as a trip through a well-equipped, scary fun house.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    70
    Contrived excess is rarely as entertaining as it is in the ironically titled Just Another Love Story, a furiously overheated romantic thriller from Danish writer-helmer Ole Bornedal.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    70
    In its voluble mix of accident trauma and infidelity, this 2007 Danish feature by Ole Bornedal is highly reminiscent of Susanne Bier's superb "Open Hearts."
  10. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    67
    Enjoyably moody in the early going, and it develops into a decent Hitchcockian thriller at times.
  11. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nicolas Rapold
    50
    Danish director Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch) continues a career of laying the groundwork for remakes that will be middling in more familiar, English-language ways.
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