
An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the ex-convict uncle he idolizes.... (Full plot summary below)
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An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the ex-convict uncle he idolizes.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHere is a film about African Americans that sidesteps all the usual, hopeful cliches and comments on how one failed generation raises another. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe big names in the cast add atmosphere in small doses, especially when Haysbert and Glover combine. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeCandis gets some wonderful performances from his impressive cast. |
| Film.comStephanie ZacharekLUV is partly a story about drugs, guns and street crime, the legacies we pass on to our children despite our efforts to do otherwise. But it’s also about the things we pass on to our children with love: How to tie a necktie, hold a steering wheel, shake another person’s hand. And it’s about the hope that those things will win out in the end. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAn uneven but strongly acted debut feature from co-writer and director Sheldon Candis. |
| Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundAs a film that largely works as a subdued twist on the familiar drama about crime and family, LUV needed more intimacy and focus. |
| NPRJoel ArnoldSo it's nice that, despite some cliched rhythms, the flawed-ex-con-makes-good drama LUV gets the details of childhood-cut-short heartbreakingly right. |
| SalonAndrew O'HehirBoth for good and for ill, LUV has a film-school feeling about it, and channels a legacy of fatalistic American crime cinema that includes "Mean Streets" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre." |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIt does not entirely succeed, but at its best Luv shows the kind of heart and intelligence that is always welcome - and often missing - in American movies. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerHeartfelt and formulaic in equal measure. |