Vulture
With its waltz-like score and farcical symmetry, The Lovers is about as full as a movie can be with a premise so thin.
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The Lovers (2017)
- Director:
- Azazel Jacobs ('Terri', 'Momma's Man', 'The GoodTimesKid')
- Writer:
- Azazel Jacobs
- Cast:
- Debra WingerTracy LettsAidan GillenMelora WaltersTyler RossJessica SulaEric SatterbergLesley Fera
The Lovers (2017) | Reviews
Variety
"The Lovers" is a comedy of Middle American doldrums that leaves you rooting for its characters instead of smirking at them.
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The New Yorker
The movie exhausts itself in its conception and sits inert on the screen like an undigested mass of script pages.
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Rolling Stone
Writer-director Azazel Jacobs finds buoyant comedy and touching gravity in the ashes of a relationship. Above all, give yourself over Winger and Letts-they are perfection.
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New York Post
Falling with a thud between two stools, it has neither the zip nor the zaniness of farce nor the airy vivacity of the best romantic comedies.
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Los Angeles Times
Having a fling with a younger, hotter artiste type may be a midlife-crisis cliché, but it's one that writer-director Jacobs invests with real flesh, blood and feeling ...
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The Lovers (2017) | Release Details
The Lovers (2017) is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.