Love & Mercy's reviews
Media reviews
The Washington Post
It?s difficult to make a visually dynamic movie about people listening. But that?s precisely what Pohlad has done with both sensitivity and audaciousness, on the one hand attuning his protagonist to the music of the spheres, and on the other bearing witness to his deepest isolation and sadness.
New York Times
Love & Mercy doesn?t claim to solve the mystery of Brian Wilson, but it succeeds beyond all expectation in making you hear where he was coming from.
Variety
A wonderfully innervating cure for the common musical biopic, Bill Pohlad?s Love & Mercy vibrantly illuminates two major breakthroughs ? one artistic, one personal ? in the life of the Beach Boys? Brian Wilson.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rarely have two actors been so effective playing the same character while taking totally different approaches.
Rolling Stone
Musically, the film is a miracle, right and riveting in every detail.
New York Post
Worth seeing just for the dramatization of the making of ?Good Vibrations? alone. But there?s much more to savor in this biopic.
Indiewire
Love & Mercy is an engrossing portrait of Wilson's specific artistic inclinations, which draw from no real precedent.
Empire
This is the film Brian Wilson?s talent deserves: original, smart and affecting.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote