Review of Crazy Heart (2009) by Siddharth S — 30 Jan 2013

The story of an ageing alcoholic singer and how he redeems himself. Mesmerizing performance by Jeff Bridges.

This review of Crazy Heart (2009) was written by Siddharth S on 30 Jan 2013.

Crazy Heart has generally received very positive reviews.

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Bridges draws us deeply inside Blake’s moment-to-moment heartbreaks. He makes us root for him as we would root for a dear friend…

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Crazy Heart gets to you like a good country song--not because it tells you something new, but because it tells it well. It's the singer, not the song…

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Perhaps the idea of watching Jeff Bridges as a drunken, broken-down, down-on-his luck country music singer in Crazy Heart doesn't automatically…

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By Vera Z (16) on 02 Aug 2018

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A decent drama worth your time. Jeff Bridges is in top form here…

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Bridges makes this sozzled and desperate ex-desperado – a cliché by any other name – as fresh and vital as one final shot at cowboy-poet…

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