The Greatest Hits
critic Reviews
, 49% Rotten Tomatometer Score- The Greatest Hits is built around a genuinely interesting idea, but it's lost in a shallow treatment that's too often content to rely on sentimentality.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRobert LevinNewsday
A run-of-the-mill romance.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRandy MyersSan Jose Mercury News
Somber depictions of grief don’t always make for great movies. Director/screenwriter Ned Benson ekes out a decent one in this sensitive romantic triangle.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreNadira GoffeSlate
If The Greatest Hits is any indication, I guess they just don’t make time-travel movies like they used to.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKevin MaherTimes (UK)
Boynton sells her role as the lovelorn crusader with class while the wall-to-wall music, including tracks from Lana Del Rey, The The and a knockout cover of the Cure’s Friday I’m in Love, does a lot of the heavy lifting.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRadheyan SimonpillaiCTV's Your Morning
It's cute time-travelling gimmick complicates an otherwise thin romance entirely reliant on tropes.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreTy BurrWashington Post
You know how a pop song from a moment in your past can bring that moment back to life in colors, smells, memories and emotions? “The Greatest Hits” takes that idea and literalizes it right into the ground.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreConnor LightbodyLive & Breathe Media (Substack)
with two magnetic leads...in Boynton and Min, [The Greatest Hits] is such a pleasant delight, that even if it doesn’t quite nail the harmony, it’s melody is rousing enough
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlex MaidyJoBlo's Movie Network
The Greatest Hits was almost a good movie if it could have plumbed the depths of these characters a bit more. Instead, it is a forgettable romance with one of the best soundtracks in recent memory.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreShawn EdwardsFox 4 Kansas City
Like a vinyl record that keeps skipping.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJames BerardinelliReelViews
Although it’s a brave move to use structural elements of Slaughterhouse Five as the foundation of a rom-com, Benson’s reach exceeds his grasp.
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