I Love You to Death Critic Reviews

The result is an actor's dream, a film in which the truth of almost every scene has to be excavated out of the debris of social inhibition.Read the full review

Despite its mixture of macabre slapstick and broadly stroked caricatures, the film has sleepy-time rhythms; it's easily the pokiest farce I've ever seen.Read the full review

The pace of the direction and-especially-of the screenplay by playwright-television writer John Kostmayer-begins to crawl, weighing down everything. [06 Apr 1990]Read the full review

More problematical is the tone of the film, which attempts to be both compassionate and goofy, though the events are funny only if they are seen as farcical.Read the full review

while not without pleasures, I Love You to Death essentially seems a film in search of a tone. [06 Apr 1990]Read the full review

Kasdan has inexplicably reduced flesh-and-blood characters to cartoons.Read the full review

I Love You to Death is strenuously unclever.Read the full review