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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 02 Jun 2015

Brilliantly conceived and almost as brilliantly realized, this is one of those rare musical biopics that truly gets to the essence of its subject…

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By Scott A. Mantz (197) for Access Hollywood (93) on 02 Jun 2015

It's deeply fascinating and engaging from start to finish, and the satisfying emotional impact is bound to give moviegoers - dare I say it…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 02 Jun 2015

Unconventional but fully fleshed-out and adoring (but not too adoring) portrait of brilliant Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson and his personal…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Jun 2015

The beauty, and the horror, of Bill Pohlad's exhilarating and inventive Love & Mercy...is the sense it gives us of the world passing through…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 01 Jun 2015

Wilson, a pop savant, was chasing some kind of dragon, and as the movie toggles years forward to the scared, overmedicated Wilson of the 1980s…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 01 Jun 2015

John Cusack plays this older, post-breakdown Wilson, a twitchy, tentative millionaire genius who has the guilelessness and sweetness of an…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 01 Jun 2015

An earnest attempt to convey the essential truth of Wilson’s extraordinary career and difficult life animates both halves of the film, and…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 01 Jun 2015

Love & Mercy might not go as deep, or as dark, as it could, but it's a commanding and artful film, that's full of excellent and worthy performances…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 01 Jun 2015

Combines drama and romance with Wilson's wonderful songs to create a marvelous showcase for the cast and Pohlad as a director…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 31 May 2015

You feel both moved and exhausted by the distance that Wilson has to travel, musically and emotionally, before reaching the shore…

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By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 May 2015

Bill Pohlad seems never to have met a metaphor he couldn't bludgeon into its most rudimentary and literal interpretation…

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By Victoria Alexander (762) for Las Vegas Informer (90) on 31 May 2015

A sadist father, a sadist therapist, a severe mental illness, and a brilliant career…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 31 May 2015

Pohlad's minimalist-formalist approach to directing - and his desire to not ruin performances with too much cutting - helps sell a screenplay…

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By Chris Norris (3) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 May 2015

Love & Mercy jumps back and forth between these two realities, each in a vividly realized time and place: the striving, LSD-dropping dawn of…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 15 Apr 2015

In succinct and sublime tones, Love & Mercy convinces that God only knows where American music would be without Brian Wilson…

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By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 17 Mar 2015

The period detail, especially in the '60s scenes is sharp and the other Beach Boys, minimal though their roles are, look spot-on (kudos especially…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for CraveOnline (813) on 16 Mar 2015

Love & Mercy is a beautiful film about the creative process, that intangible thing artists try to express and aficionados try to understand…

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By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 16 Mar 2015

When your favorite songs bubble up, the marriage of sound and screen will win your tears, your smiles, and your soul…

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By Parker Mott (2) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 22 Sep 2014

Love & Mercy is an uneven biopic boosted by strong performances…

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By Bill Chambers (261) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 17 Sep 2014

Despite the dual-casting, alternating timelines, and idiosyncratic attempts to get inside Wilson's head, this is a fairly conventional biopic…

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