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Hard Luck Love Song

2020

Justin Corsbie

Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, Dermot Mulroney, RZA ...

5.4

109

Drama. Romance A gritty love story about a charismatic but down-on-his-luck troubadour living out of cheap motels and making bad decisions.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Don’t expect something particularly revelatory. That the film proves engrossing throughout is due largely to Michael Dorman ('For All Mankind'), in the central role of Jesse"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The twists are violent and silly and have little relation to the gritty realities of Snider’s world. Corsbie has filmmaking energy to spare but also makes many undergrad errors"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'‘Hard Luck Love Song' turns lyrics into a movie worth seeing. Michael Dorman does great work (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kristen Page-Kirby The Washington Post	"What could have been a taut, gripping, emotional story ends up being diluted by a surrounding narrative that meanders and moseys to the point of irrelevance (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"Its voice is ragged, but 'Hard Luck Love Song' hits so many right notes (...) A happy but gritty marriage of material, filmmaker and star"	POS
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"The first 40 minutes are aggressively off-putting. The arrantly contrived last 20 minutes are equally patience-testing. Everything in between is bearable, if only by comparison, but not particularly worth the bother"	NEG
United States	Tara McNamara Common Sense Media	"This dramatic interpretation is a downer (...) While the film isn't as dazzling as the song that inspired it, the music overall is phenomenal (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jenny Nulf Austin Chronicle	"Where the second act’s love story feels organic and natural, the first act’s hard luck wanders too far down a winding road (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Tender [and] unpretentious (...) 'Hard Luck Love Song' is the kind of movie that would sit right next to someone at the world’s saddest dive bar even if the place was full of nothing but empty seats"	POS

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