Big Bad Love Critic Reviews

Brave and admirable for the trust that it puts in a viewer's intuition and willingness in going along with it right through to its rewarding finish.Read the full review

It's messy, but in the end satisfying, a film worth making, a journey worth taking.Read the full review

A flawed and overlong but ultimately affecting account of one man's struggle to regain control of his life.Read the full review

Howard luxuriates in writerly misery as Barlow, and the participation of the filmmaker's real-life wife, Debra Winger, as Barlow's ex gives the scenes between the two of them an unfakeable erotic charge.Read the full review

Brown, is a good enough actor and director to keep the film afloat for long stretches.Read the full review

It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow. I can't. Big Bad Love can, and is filled with characters who love and accept him, even though he is a full-time, gold-plated pain in the can.Read the full review

Beneath its stylistic and structural quirks, Big Bad Love -- is a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence.Read the full review

I don't know if Howard had fun directing, writing, and starring in this thing; but he had to have gotten more masochistic pleasure out of it than the audience does.Read the full review