Down with Love

Like Far From Heaven, the film doesnt send up its inspiration so much as reboot it. ( Read More )

David Sterritt

Beneath its color drenched images and vintage wide screen cinematography lurks a flatly written script directed with a lack of gracefulness and imagination. ( Read More )

Kimberley Jones

And above all, this is fun stuff, a shiny cocktail shaker of a film that mostly skips the Austin Powers school of parody and instead aims to be an exacting re creation (a la Todd Haynes Far From Heaven, but without the social agenda). ( Read More )

96mins Designed as an affectionate send up of the Doris Day Rock Hudson romantic comedies of the early 1960s, the campy and colorful Down With Love a cinematic souffle that never fully rises. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

And it relishes the big scene where a hypocrite gets his comeuppance.The very concept of comeuppance is obsolete in these permissive modern times, when few movie characters have a sense of shame and behavior is justified in terms of pure selfishness. ( Read More )