Lorelei

critic Reviews

, 90% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • A sensitive portrayal of life on the economic margins, Lorelei transcends its narrative shortcomings with strong performances and Sabrina Doyle's deft direction.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Brian TallericoRogerEbert.com
    Even the beats of Lorelei that feel manufactured connect because of the tenderness of the filmmaking and performances.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Tomris LafflyVariety
    Elevated by Jena Malone and Pablo Schreiber, debut feature filmmaker Sabrina Doyle's tale of Americans on the fringe is compassionately textured even when it veers into cliché.
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  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Teo BugbeeNew York Times
    The film is invested in accurately depicting the details of its character's lives, but its collection of studied impressions doesn't coalesce into a coherent final portrait.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    G. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco Chronicle
    Malone... is outstanding as a woman who, in some sense, has been in a prison of her own the past 15 years, waiting for that break in life that may never come.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Jon FroschHollywood Reporter
    An uneven blue-collar melodrama lifted by its leads.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Greg CarlsonVague Visages
    Good onscreen chemistry between Jena Malone and Pablo Schreiber lifts the filmmaker’s debut feature out of traps set by occasionally mundane dialogue and predictable complications.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Keith GarlingtonKeith & the Movies
    It’s Doyle’s grounded true-to-life perspective that gives “Lorelei” its pulse.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Dan BayerNext Best Picture
    Malone and Schreiber, two of our most interesting actors, are more than up to the task of carrying the film. Their white-hot chemistry goes a long way, but their own peculiarities as performers prove to be a perfect match as well.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Kristi TurnquistOregonian
    "Lorelei" is sensitively made, and Doyle achieves a tone that is both compassionate and clear-eyed.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Julia SwiftMy Champlain Valley
    This film is the first of many I hope to see from filmmaker Sabrina Doyle. The less than stellar script is easily ignored as the audience is pulled in by Pablo Schreiber best in a career performance.
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