Love the Hard Way
User Score
7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17

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  1. JeffJ.
    Jan 31, 2004
    0
    Painfully corny. unwatchable.

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Metascore
42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Wildly uneven romantic drama.
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    25
    To shine in a turd like this shows Brody has the stuff that -- damn the Oscar jinx -- makes an actor last.
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  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Laura Sinagra
    40
    If this adaptation of Chinese punk-lit writer Wang Shuo's fiction doesn't survive its Bronx trick-out, you can't really blame Brody, whose luminous autodidact seems caught between camp and coolsville.
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