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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe result is an actor's dream, a film in which the truth of almost every scene has to be excavated out of the debris of social inhibition.
- The result is a one-joke movie.
- 60The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyMore problematical is the tone of the film, which attempts to be both compassionate and goofy, though the events are funny only if they are seen as farcical.
- 60Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonDespite its mixture of macabre slapstick and broadly stroked caricatures, the film has sleepy-time rhythms; it's easily the pokiest farce I've ever seen.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumLawrence Kasdan directed this fair-to-middling black comedy from a script by John Kostmayer, and although the pacing is sluggish in spots, people with a taste for acting as impersonation will enjoy some of the scenery chewing.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenBased on an allegedly true story, this is a dark comedy that begins with a charmingly light touch.... Alas, it's when the tale stays murderous, amateur night dragging into amateur day, that the picture loses both its energy and its edge. [09 Apr 1990]
- 38Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversKasdan has inexplicably reduced flesh-and-blood characters to cartoons.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanI Love You to Death is strenuously unclever.
- 20TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissI Love You to Death lacks the precision, ferocity and guts needed for black farce.
- 10VarietyVarietyI Love You to Death is a stillborn attempt at black comedy.