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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- This is Webber's flawed but treasured document of his son, an attempt to share a portrait of their developing relationship, and — later on — a chance for Isaac to see his dad's parental reflections captured on-screen.
- 83The A.V. ClubSam AdamsThe A.V. ClubSam AdamsShot with tiny digital cameras to minimize the sense of intrusion, The End Of Love sometimes feels like a home movie, but that’s also the source of its strength.
- 75The PlaylistJames RocchiThe PlaylistJames RocchiThe End of Love is hardly a work of revelation. At the same time, it's surprisingly well-executed, nicely performed and manages to combine a warm and gentle sense of the rhythms of life with a cold and bright-eyed look at the world and its lead's flaws and character.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyWebber’s key influence appears to be ultra-naturalistic contemporary European cinema, most specifically French, and The End of Love hits that mark often enough to make it affecting.
- 60Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesIt’s a kind of self-portrait made out of quotidian meals, naps and scattershot car-seat conversations, and though the loss that underlies Mark’s emotional state feels like a scripted conceit, The End of Love excels at conveying the moment-to-moment frustrations and exhilarations of being a dad.
- 50VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonOddly overstuffed with cameos by bigscreen actors playing tongue-in-cheek versions of themselves, Webber's Los Angeles-set, microbudget dramedy delivers some rare and beautiful moments of daddy day-care, but its tone shifts more wildly than a preschooler's disposition and its narrative is stillborn.
- 50Film.comWilliam GossFilm.comWilliam GossA mostly mundane single-father drama.
- 30Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonIt's the kind of indie in which shrugging naturalism means nobody has a distinctive personality or energy, and the claustrophobic sense of young Industry workers collarbone-deep into their own navels is hard to shake.