Critic Reviews

• Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

  I'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept, but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché.

• Tom Sime, Dallas Morning News

  The overall fabric is hypnotic, and Mr. Mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy.

• Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

  Too clever by about nine-tenths.

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  Despite impeccable acting ... and a script that takes some rather unexpected (even, at times, preposterous) turns, Love is just too, too precious in the end.

• Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

  The problems of the people in Love in the Time of Money are hardly specific to their era. They just have problems, which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way.

• Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

  Unfortunately, a cast of competent performers from movies, television and the theater are cast adrift in various New York City locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  Feels more like an exercise for the cast and a calling card project for Mattei than a full-blooded film.

• Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

  nothing to say about life, love, or even sex

• Anthony Miele, Film Threat

  It is a great character study that ranks with Paul Thomas Anderson's epic Magnolia.

• Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  The latest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen.

• Luke Y. Thompson, Dallas Observer

  [I]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life, chances are you've already seen this kind of thing.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  It doesn't help that the director and cinematographer Stephen Kazmierski shoot on grungy video, giving the whole thing a dirty, tasteless feel.

• Pam Grady, Reel.com

  If this is an example of the type of project that Robert Redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to, then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films.

• Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

  Mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from Stock Character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination.

• Jeffrey Chen, Window to the Movies

  Will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002.

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