Review of Endless Love (1981) by Greg W — 08 Feb 2015

To date, Tom Cruise's finest performance.

This review of Endless Love (1981) was written by Greg W on 08 Feb 2015.

Endless Love has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Bill S (2,971) on 08 Apr 2015

You don't get worse than this.All the coming of age crap to come in the rest of the 80's can call this $hit their champion…

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By Eric H (2,898) on 28 Apr 2015

You don't get worse than this.All the coming of age crap to come in the rest of the 80's can call this $hit their champion…

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By Ronnie Scheib (420) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Feb 2014

In “The Greatest” (2009) and “Country Strong” (2010), Feste proved herself quite skilled, if not especially innovative, at limning…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 14 Feb 2014

This Endless Love is a photo shoot, not a movie. It'd play better as a slideshow of jpgs…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 13 Feb 2014

Pettyfer and Wilde look the parts, but any scenes asking them to emote quickly turn disastrous…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Feb 2014

In the hands of director and co-writer Shana Feste (Country Strong), Endless Love has become a solidly engaging neo-'50s romantic melodrama…

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By Ibraheem M (533) on 12 Jun 2014

Bad, but kind of liked it…

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By Phil Brown (24) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Feb 2014

A film like Endless Love comes about as close to reality as a Hobbit sequel, only without a single dragon to remind impressionable viewers…

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By Laremy Legel (198) for Film.com (1,892) on 13 Feb 2014

That it’s not totally dialed in throughout makes it a victim of the same thing most bad movies fall prey to: having the spark of a great…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Feb 2014

A highly homogenized and sanitized remake that's little better than its 1981 predecessor…

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