The Names of Love
Music Box Films | Release Date: June 24, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 28, 2011
Forestier's performance is a tour de force of comic acting, maintaining astonishing alertness and energy from shot to shot and scene to scene. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumJun 22, 2011
For those who wish to decode The Names of Love, there's a sharp commentary on French prejudices, character types, history, and culture embedded in Michel Leclerc's droll autobiographical French comedy. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesOct 19, 2011
What is so surprising – even exhilarating – about The Names of Love is that it shucks off the desultory roadblocks that engine the modern romantic comedy – all that razzmatazz of missed connections and dunderheaded misunderstandings. Read full review
75
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOct 5, 2011
The leads are charmingly mismatched, but adorable enough to root for, as a couple. Forestier is a wildly uninhibited actress, sexy as all get out. She makes this girl dangerous, seemingly capable of anything. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 18, 2011
Leclerc and company manage to raise serious points and deliver intelligent laughs at the same time, which is no small feat. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJul 7, 2011
Sara Forestier is uninhibited in the role and has great comic energy. She won the Cesar for best actress for this performance. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsJun 23, 2011
The American romantic comedy has grown distressingly moribund lately, but anyone looking to freshen up the genre a bit need look no further than Michel Leclerc's The Names Of Love. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 1, 2011
It's always entertaining, and it boasts a terrific performance from Sara Forestier. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazineEd SchiedJun 29, 2011
As uninhibited as its heroine, this film is full of clever surprises. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJun 23, 2011
For all the potentially dangerous subjects it glosses, above all the tangled legacies of the Holocaust and the Algerian war, The Names of Love dances away from any uncomfortable provocation. Even when sticking out its tongue, it is finally just an airy comedy riding on one cheeky, incandescent performance. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 23, 2011
Sharp-witted, sometimes surreal and largely autobiographical French-language comedy. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenJul 1, 2011
The film is sometimes funny and occasionally smart yet never quite what it wants to be – funny and smart at the same time. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerJun 21, 2011
Chockfull of ideas in a way that's both scattershot and more than a little exciting. Read full review
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