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Lonely Hearts
EMAILPRINTMillennium Films / Samuel Goldwyn Films LLC / Roadside Attractions
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Crime | Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Todd Robinson
Directed by: Todd Robinson
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 13, 2007
DVD: July 31, 2007
Running Time: 108 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong violence and sexual content, nudity and language
Starring John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Scott Caan, Laura Dern, Michael Gaston, and Bruce MacVittie
Lonely Hearts is a vivid retelling of the real life murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez (America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers") and its connection to the tragic story of Detective Elmer C. Robinson who helped capture the killers but lost his wife in the process. (Millennium Films)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Los Angeles Times Alex Chun
While not much of a detective story, Robinson's period film does provide a captivating look at the dynamics that turn Fernandez and Beck into serial killers.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
As fictional characters in a movie that is fetishistic in its attention to period detail, Mr. Leto and Ms. Hayek work well together as an unsavory couple two rungs down the social ladder from Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity."
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
The story of Fernandez and Beck may be grotesque comedy, but Todd Robinson tells it straight, without flinching from its piteousness, horror, or banality.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Lonely Hearts never locates the key to the killers' bloody bond.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Travolta gives a hangdog performance as the world-weary cop obsessed with rooting out the killers. Hayek and Leto share a few tart black comic moments as the film spirals into a bloodbath.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The intensity of Leto and Hayek goes deeper than the script into revealing what makes these two sociopaths in heat impervious to bloody murder. When Hayek and Leto are onscreen, you do not look away.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
While Travolta and Gandolfini have the beefy, closed-off look of post-WWII era cops, they never FEEL: They look like actors playing dress up. Leto overcomes his delicate good looks to embody Fernandez's feral, faintly exotic charm, but Hayek is a standard-issue femme fatale, damaged on the inside but flawless on the surface.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A handsome and well-acted film -- if you like that bitten-off, half-Hemingway style -- but also a grim, emotionally strangled one with a strong sadistic current, no genuinely likable characters and almost no humor.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
While the duo's crimes were indeed sensational, writer-director Todd Robinson's starry take on the material fails to provide much in the way of a new perspective.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ella Taylor
Todd Robinson, grandson of the real-life Elmer, never fully commits to the heartlessness of the genre as Arthur Penn did in "Bonnie and Clyde."
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Too much of the film is given over to the soap opera of Elmer's life.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Good as she is, the effortlessly magnetic Hayek just can't sell the role of a pathetic soul whose deep insecurities turn her into a sociopath. And if she has too much charisma, Leto, as the smooth Lothario, simply doesn't have enough.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Hayek, with that old-time movie-star pout, those dark, reflective eyes (they could be Satan's twin swimming pools), is the shivery, chilling backbone of Lonely Hearts. Martha Beck couldn't get away with murder. But Salma Hayek can.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay M. gave it an8:
Criminally overlooked noir.
Marie M. gave it a6:
Unfortunately, Selam Hayack can't act. When that's combined with her being incredibly badly miscast in this role, it's a disaster. The real-life character her role is based on was a morbidly obese woman. If they'd cast someone appropriate - say, somone who coudld, I don't know - ACT - the movie really could have worked. The rest of the cast was there and the script wasn't tbad. Instead, Hayack is walking around around in the same red lipstick she wears in every movie being Selma Hayack and it's impossible to forget who she is. It's a shame, too, because Jared Leto is really, really good here.
Johnny S. gave it a9:
If you like noir you'll love this film -- Travolta is much better in serious roles like this one, nice to see Gandolfini getting big screen props and Salma hayek is as usual gorgeous.
David E. gave it an8:
Enjoyed the film--Salma Hayek and Jared Leto deliver solid performances in very twisted characters who really deserve each other. Hayek is especially "compelling".
