Overview
Genre :
DramaRelease Date :
January 18, 2013 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
Sheldon CandisStarring :
Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Michael Kenneth Williams, Danny Glover, Meagan Good, Dennis Haysbert, Charles S. Dutton, Nikki Estridge
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers 
[Rate It]
“..the writing fails, though, Candis' work with actors...is solid..”
by Robert Abele [LA Times]
“..the screenplay lets its characters down, as it devolves into platitudes and melodrama..”
by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News]
“..solid skills, and clearly works well with actors..”
by David Rooney [Hollywood Reporter]
“..heartfelt and formulaic in equal measure..”
by Robert Koehler [Variety]
Review rate : C-
“..every scene wobbles around..”
“..every scene wobbles around..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
“..As a film that largely works as a subdued twist on the familiar drama about crime and family, LUV needed more intimacy and focus..”
by R. Kurt Osenlund [Slant Magazine]
“..although Common and Rainey make a well-matched duo, their chemistry is frequently squandered by a script (co-written by director Sheldon Candis and Justin Wilson) that boxes them into impossible roles in one cliched scene after another..”
by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice]
“..a clumsily violent attempt at grafting two reliable genres together into one somewhat edgy picture..”
by Roger Moore [Movie Nation]
Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com]
Reviewed by A.O. Scott [NY Times]
