Love Hard

Name: Love Hard
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: November 5, 2021
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Darien Martin, Darren Barnet, Harry Shum Jr., James Saito, Jimmy O. Yang

2021

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): November 5, 2021

Starring: Darien Martin, Darren Barnet, Harry Shum Jr., James Saito, Jimmy O. Yang, Lochlyn Munro, Matty Finochio, Mikaela Hoover, Nina Dobrev, Rebecca Staab

Summary: An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for the holidays, only to discover that she's been catfished. This lighthearted romantic comedy chronicles her attempt to reel in love.

Director: Hernan Jimenez

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 104 min

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Ferdosa Abdi

Nov 5, 2021

With dazzling lead performances from Jimmy O. Yang and Nina Dobrev, Love Hard will surely be a Christmas romantic comedy worth revisiting every year. Read full review

Laura Sirikul

Nov 5, 2021

Love Hard isn’t reinventing the wheel, but Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang are adorable to watch in this feel-good Christmas rom-com. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Nov 5, 2021

An inoffensive time-filler that’s hard to love but easy to like. Read full review

Courtney Howard

Nov 5, 2021

With its prevailing sentiments on dating in the digital age feeling more than a decade old, and themes centered on honesty and shallowness ringing hollow, this feature is fairly forgettable. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 11, 2021

It’s a Hallmark Channel holiday movie on a Netflix budget. The characters are bland, the performances not much better and the writing almost instantly awful — tin-eared, clumsy ESL grammar and usage, the works. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Nov 5, 2021

Like most of Netflix’s seasonal assembly line of yuletide fare, “Love Hard” is both too well-cast for the Hallmark Channel and too half-assed for movie theaters. It’s likewise adrift between rom-com nostalgia, reckoning with the anxieties of dating in the digital age, and simply hitting enough data points to give the algorithm what it wants for Christmas. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Nov 8, 2021

Some moments are sweeter than others, but overall, this cookie cutter rom-com has nothing more or less than what its subgenre demands. Read full review

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Rebrab

Nov 7, 2021

I notice the critics don't score this film highly, yet the general public do, I think it was a great feel good movie with good all round acting.
The critics got this one wrong! Througly enjoyable.