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Bleeding Love

Bleeding Love

2023

Emma Westenberg

Ewan McGregor, Clara McGregor, Kim Zimmer, Devyn McDowell ...

Drama A road trip of a father and his daughter, where the father is driving his daughter to rehab.

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The Hollywood Reporter	"This uneven indie road-trip drama is at times too by-the-numbers but is always captivating thanks to its two stars, who hold the screen throughout"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A drama heightened by the pairing of Ewan McGregor and his real-life daughter Clara (...) Despite the picture's quietly moving moments, the conventionality of proceedings ultimately overwhelms the script's modest insights"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"It's hard to see why this movie was made other than to expand Clara McGregor's résumé"	NEG
United States	Damon Wise Deadline	"Clara and Ewan McGregor shine (...) It may seem slight at first sight but, underneath, it’s alive with nuance"	POS
United States	Stephen Rodrick Variety	"A meandering road trip that eventually finds its way home"	NEU
United States	Marya E. Gates The Playlist	"There's a fine line between stylized direction and direction that is so fussy that it gets in the way of a film's actors. That's a line [Emma Westenberg] does not navigate successfully"	NEG
United States	Noah Berlatsky Chicago Reader	"[It] is made up almost entirely of tropes, twists, plots, and characterization we have seen over and over and over again"	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"Decent performances from the real-life father and daughter can’t save this generic road movie (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	"I am happy to say that this is a good movie with excellent performances across the board. It does not recreate the genre nor did it set out to do so (...) The McGregors prove here that Ewan remains one of the best talents out there and that Clara is not far behind"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Although Ewan’s daughter and co-star shows promise, this indie boot camp drama is far from 'Paper Moon' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Alex Harrison Screen Rant	"[It] is a middling father-daughter drama coated in a few too many layers of aesthetics to feel engaged by what it does have going for it (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Marco Vito Oddo Collider	"A powerful family drama enhanced by phenomenal performances"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Ewan McGregor is polished enough to establish a mood of unflagging realism, undaunted by a script that provides almost no opportunity to keep the momentum going (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Katie Rife rogerebert.com	"The truthful elements are not enough to overcome the clumsy and cliché ones, and in the end it's a film that's more satisfying before you know how it ends (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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