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Drama about a British college student and her American classmate whose passionate romance presents the challenges of both being together and being apart. Cast:Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie BewleyDirector:Drake DoremusRelease Date:October 28, 2011DVD Release:March 6, 2012From:ParamountRating:PG-13Length:1 hr. 29 min.
Like Crazy played in key cities to very good reviews. • Calvin Wilson wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "...gets to the essence of what it's like to be young, confused and in love.... a tightly focused film that's all the more impressive for being improvised." • And Claudia Puig wrote in USA Today, "No other recent film has so deftly captured the act of falling in love... guaranteed to stir discussion as well as emotions." More Reviews Below...
Like Crazy Positive Reviews (44 Reviews, reviews below)
Mary Pols, Time: EXCELLENT "...hands the viewer an express ticket to revisit the magic of falling in love. But the film goes further, delving into the anatomy of a relationship..."(See all of Mary Pols's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 235 words, 10/21/11
Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...so raw and intimate, watching the appealing Jones and Yelchin giggle in his bedroom and bicker in her kitchen feels like an invasion of privacy."(See all of Mara Reinstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 178 words, 10/27/11
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...an exquisite, happy/sad young-love story.... it tells the truth, simply: Love is thrilling. And -- just because of the way life happens -- sometimes love hurts."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 303 words, 10/28/11
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Doremus provided an outline for his two remarkable young stars, but they improvised the dialogue, which rings funny, painful and unerringly true."(See all of Peter Travers's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 261 words, 10/28/11
Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING(cg) "No other recent film has so deftly captured the act of falling in love.... the film is smart and clear-eyed. Its insight into human behavior will leave a powerful impression..."(See all of Claudia Puig's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 337 words, 10/28/11
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "...well-made... Doremus handed his actors an outline and together they improvised every scene. Some of the whispered endearments under the sheets are delightful."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 926 words, 11/04/11
James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...it's surprising how a film aspiring to capture the 'reality' of a romance can be saddled with so much artifice.... it is intermittently exasperating and ultimately unsatisfying."(See all of James Berardinelli's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 778 words, 11/03/11
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...the film itself plays like one long trailer, a collection of moments and montages that hint at, but never quite achieve, a fully realized whole."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 286 words, 10/28/11
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...excels at making first love feel as first time for us as it does for the characters.... it brings both intimacy and delicacy to the push and pull of love, longing and regret."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 733 words, 10/28/11
Sara Stewart, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Call me shallow, but part of what makes a dizzying romance between two adults so intoxicating is the sex. Of which there is none between the two stars of this movie."(See all of Sara Stewart's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 531 words, 10/28/11
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD(cg) "It's entirely possible, maybe even inevitable, that it will win over a good many moviegoers despite its bouts of semipreciousness. In the end, I was one of them."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 525 words, 11/04/11
David Edelstein, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "Director Drake Doremus gets the tempos right. The movie jumps when it needs to and slows when it must.... 'Like Crazy's' perspective is wonderfully sane."(See all of David Edelstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 563 words, 10/24/11
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "...well-made... Doremus handed his actors an outline and together they improvised every scene. Some of the whispered endearments under the sheets are delightful."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 926 words, 11/04/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "The idea is to show love in incidentals rather than big scenes, but the fragments selected do not build to any significance -- this is a rote story, arbitrarily scattered..."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 205 words, 10/26/11
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: MODERATE(cg) "Doremus does things in a way that can be rather irritating, using jumpy camerawork in some scenes... Frequent injections of sombre piano music are even more annoying."(See all of Linda Barnard's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 474 words, 11/04/11
Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE(cg) "Keen to be both really romantic and romantically real, the movie is neither, and falls between the cracks of its twin-ambitions. The result? Call it l'amour phooey."(See all of Rick Groen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 653 words, 11/04/11
Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT(cg) "The spare, suggestive script - devised through improvisation - and deeply felt performances by the appealing leads make this a real heartbreaker."(See all of Glenn Sumi's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 148 words, 11/03/11
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Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD(cg) "...an over-the-shoulder view of a relationship at just about every stage of its morphology.... haven't we all been there? Didn't it hurt? And wasn't it grand?"(See all of Ann Hornaday's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 431 words, 11/04/11
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD(cg) "...only rarely earns a tear, only occasionally insists that we shout 'Hang the practicality! You kids HAVE to be together!' In its own way, that's a good thing..."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 621 words, 11/18/11
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD(cg) "The cast creates such a naturalistic sense of empathy -- a complicity, even -- with the viewers that we're swept up into their characters' lives."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 511 words, 11/04/11
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD(cg) "...requires some seriously good improvisational acting on the part of the leads. Luckily, Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, especially, are up to the task."(See all of Bill Goodykoontz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 591 words, 11/11/11
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...makes other romantic films look obvious and calculated in comparison. The emotions are raw. The technique is spare."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 714 words, 11/04/11
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "While the film is often quite moving, it's also at times frustrating; people in love, we realize, aren't always as fascinating to the rest of us as they are to each other."(See all of Moira Macdonald's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 414 words, 11/11/11
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...a beautifully realized drama that gets to the essence of what it's like to be young, confused and in love.... all the more impressive for being improvised."(See all of Calvin Wilson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 324 words, 11/11/11
Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: POOR(cg) "...so intent on being untypical that it forsakes everything that makes a movie work, like a plot, meaningful dialogue and characters we care about."(See all of Steve Persall's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 424 words, 11/17/11
Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD(cg) "There's a too-typical indie film inconclusiveness to the ending, but the film still works, thanks to the talents of the well-established Yelchin and dazzling newcomer Jones."(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 305 words, 11/11/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "The idea is to show love in incidentals rather than big scenes, but the fragments selected do not build to any significance -- this is a rote story, arbitrarily scattered..."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 205 words, 10/26/11
Betsy Sherman, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD(cg) "...an unsentimental but emotionally engaging portrait of how a couple can make a relationship work -- or not -- when half a world separates them."(See all of Betsy Sherman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 154 words, 11/03/11
R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: MODERATE(cg) "Never do you feel a strong attachment to, or sympathy for, this pair, as their chemistry is nonexistent and only one of them seems at all invested..."(See all of R. Kurt Osenlund's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 804 words, 10/27/11
Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT(cg) "The spare, suggestive script - devised through improvisation - and deeply felt performances by the appealing leads make this a real heartbreaker."(See all of Glenn Sumi's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 148 words, 11/03/11
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT(cg) "The pleasure of the film is how it refuses to give Anna and Jacob easy paths or easy outs for their mistakes, yet never gives up hope..."(See all of MaryAnn Johanson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 346 words, 10/31/11
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...excels at making first love feel as first time for us as it does for the characters.... it brings both intimacy and delicacy to the push and pull of love, longing and regret."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 733 words, 10/28/11
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...features some lovely, relaxed performances. This movie's either going to speak straight to your heart or it very much won't, and I fall into the 'nope' category."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 853 words, 10/27/11
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Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...an exquisite, beautifully acted gem.... contains nary an extraneous detail, while still managing to luxuriate in the tender and awkward silences of young love."(See all of Andrew Barker's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 694 words, 01/22/11
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...excels at making first love feel as first time for us as it does for the characters.... it brings both intimacy and delicacy to the push and pull of love, longing and regret."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 733 words, 10/28/11
21.1 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Like Crazy's reviews are separated by an average 21.1 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
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Coverage:Like Crazy's reviews cover 77.5% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 21,543 words involume (average is 20,172 words). Length:The film's reviews average 490 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Like Crazy Coverage, Volume & Length (44 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 4 Days Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Like Crazy's reviews on average broke 4 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Like Crazy's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Like Crazy (44 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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