| Love Liza Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: C) |
| LOVE LIZA (director: Todd Louiso; screenwriter: Gordy Hoffman; cinematographer:
Lisa Rinzler; editor: Ann Stein Katz; music: Jim O'Rourke; cast: Philip Seymour
Hoffman (Wilson Joel), Kathy Bates (Mary Ann Bankhead), Sarah Koskoff (Maura),
Stephen...more |
| Love Liza Review |
| by Karina Montgomery |
| The short review: I deeply admired Philip Seymour Hoffman's
performance as Wilson, but I cannot say that I "enjoyed" the film.
Like About Schmidt, Love Liza centers on one man's emotional journey
after a horrible shock. It is far less verbal and...more |
| Love Liza Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4) |
| Wilson, an in-demand website designer, keeps a supply of unleaded on ice,
constantly dousing a rag with the four-star stuff and holding it tight over
his nose until the fumes invade his consciousness, numbing his senses and
dispelling
the pain he's...more |
| Love Liza Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: C+) |
| When web designer Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman, "25th Hour") loses his
wife to suicide he begins to numb himself from the pain by inhaling gasoline
fumes. In denial from the real world, Wilson backs away from his professional
life and...more |
| Love Liza Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
| Todd Louiso's LOVE LIZA is a depressing and fairly pointless movie about Wilson
Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a man who develops a severe drug addiction after
his wife, Liza, commits suicide. Although he's willing to huff gasoline if
that's all that's...more |
| Love Liza Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 3/4) |
| # stars based on 4 stars: 3
Reviewed by: Harvey Karten
Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by: Todd Louiso
Written by: Gordy Hoffman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Sarah
Koskoff, Stephen Tobolowsky, Shannon Holt
Screened at: Review...more |
| Love Liza Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 7/10) |
| On paper, Love Liza seems like it would be a sure thing come Oscar time.
The Academy has recently fallen all over itself to acknowledge a bunch of
first-time feature-film directors (see Todd Field, Spike Jonze, Sam Mendes,
Kenneth Lonergan, Stephen...more |
| Love Liza Review |
| by Rachel Gordon |
| LOVE, HONOUR AND OBEY
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