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 "In any case, I would recommend Big Bad Love only to Winger fans who have missed her since 1995's Forget Paris. But even then, I'd recommend waiting for DVD and just skipping straight to her scenes."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
 "Arliss Howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, Big Bad Love, meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"You'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than Leon]."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"You can see where Big Bad Love is trying to go, but it never quite gets there."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"Trailer park Magnolia: too long, too cutesy, too sure of its own importance, and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The draw [for "Big Bad Love"] is a solid performance by Arliss Howard."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"A mess, but it's a sincere mess."
-- Manohla Dargis, L.A. WEEKLY
"It is the sheer, selfish, wound-licking, bar-scrapping doggedness of Leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion, despite its patchy construction."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Constantly touching, surprisingly funny, semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act."
-- Bill Gallo, NEW TIMES
"A respectable mix of piercing human frailty, the tricks your mind plays on you, and the unexpected blows to the ego that force separation and reconciliation."
-- Rachel Gordon, FILMCRITIC.COM
"The film often achieves a mesmerizing poetry."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Like Leon, it's frustrating and still oddly likable."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
"As aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice, the movie makes two hours feel like four."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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"The film is an uncannily eerie echo of its protagonist -- ravishingly poetic one moment, bellowing with unarticulated rage the next."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"The worst kind of independent; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors"
-- Jason Clark, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"A chaotic panorama that's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags."
-- Kevin Courrier, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"It's a drawling, slobbering, lovable run-on sentence of a film, a Southern Gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Far too clever by half, Howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments, with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies, daydreams, memories and one fantastic visual trope after another."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a Buñuel retrospective."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but they’re often undone by Howard’s self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject."
-- Kevin Lally, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Its pleasures are ... sharp and not to everyone’s taste"
-- Philip Martin, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
"The very definition of what critics have come to term an “ambitious failure.”"
-- David Nusair, APOLLO GUIDE
"It's the film's languid, woozy feel that draws you in and keeps you there, stuck like a moth in a killing jar redolent of Old Grandad."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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ROTTEN 39%
Avg. Rating: 5.6/10 |
"Brown's saga, like many before his, makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow. I can't."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"[Howard] so good as Leon Barlow ... that he hardly seems to be acting."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"[F]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative, the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"The movie is obviously a labour of love so Howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"While Howard's appreciation of Brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere, the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Though Howard demonstrates a great eye as a director, this Southern Gothic drama is sadly a tough sit, with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Admirably ambitious but self-indulgent."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"A movie that can't get sufficient distance from Leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Brims with passion: for words, for its eccentric, accident-prone characters, and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"It doesn't seem like it's following a fixed path to the finish. Unlike so many movies, it feels alive."
-- Michael B. Scrutchin, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Big Bad Love" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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