Things We Lost in the Fire Critic Reviews
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Emotionally challenging and honest.Read the full review
The movie is an engrossing melodrama, and it has its heart in the right place.Read the full review
The movie makes some missteps, most of them in pacing and length, and the story veers occasionally into melodrama, but it is saved by the powerful performance of Benicio Del Toro.Read the full review
Del Toro is the movie's force field. This is a performance you will not forget.Read the full review
Outstanding in support roles are Alison Lohman, playing a friend of Jerry's, and John Carroll Lynch, playing a neighbor who befriends Jerry.Read the full review
Well-acted yet strangely inert, Fire explores the messy human emotions of grief, but it'd be a lot more resonant if the guy everyone's mourning weren't so fatally perfect, so unforgivably superhuman.Read the full review
Were there such a thing as a low-carb melodrama, Things We Lost in the Fire would be it - all the tears, half the guilt.Read the full review
Things are sporadically troublesome about the film. The story goes in and out of being self-consciously earnest and ponderous, a situation that numerous tight close-ups of people's eyes does nothing to help.Read the full review
A live-wire performance by Benicio Del Toro sparks an otherwise morose study of loss, addiction and catharsis.Read the full review
Mr. Del Toro is a fearless actor, and his Jerry, a heroin addict lurching toward redemption, is the heart and soul, as well as the haunted, rubbery visage, of a story of grief and loss that would be fairly lifeless without him.Read the full review
