A robust and brutal story of love, madness and death that intoxicates and fascinates thanks to a level of talent on steroids. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 15, 2024

Kristen Stewart is exceptional here, and it is a toss-up between this and Personal Shopper (2016) over which is her best screen performance ever.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 10, 2024

Love Lies Bleeding certainly meets expectations as it stars Kristen Stewart, as never seen before, within this brooding, dark tale depicting love against the odds, a road trip, a criminal thriller and more to unveil a gritty, intoxicating mix.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2024

The beats of small-pond gangsterism are familiar, but Glass and co-writer Weronika Tofilska also layer the narrative with themes of addiction, steroid abuse, domestic violence, and childhood trauma

Full Review | Original Score: 4 | Jun 2, 2024

The bizarre, fantasy-esque finale will divide opinion but leads into a nonchalant devious act that gives the movie the indelible image it deserves, in keeping with Glass’ grimy, sweaty, surprising flick which proves she can crack all sorts of cinema.

Full Review | May 31, 2024

This is all about strength, but deeply flawed strength, where vanity is the Achilles heel. Adrenaline-filled and breathlessly stylish, this is a very strong period flick that feels like a twenty-first century Bound.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2024

Love Lies Bleeding is a mostly effective piece of pulp cinema that takes on Americana at its nastiest and most desperate.

Full Review | May 29, 2024

Glass’ direction is confident and occasionally daring, and her two leads sizzle off the screen.

Full Review | May 21, 2024

Glass’ second feature, Love Lies Bleeding, is a haunting, pulpy affair about the whirlwind romance between a gym manager and an aspiring bodybuilder.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2024

“Steamy” barely begins to describe the heat on display in “Love Lies Bleeding,” a deliciously devilish slice of lesbian noir from director Rose Glass — that showcases one of our best actors, Kristen Stewart, and an appealing newcomer in Katy O’Brian.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2024

Stewart, seemingly ever-evolving as an actress, gives possibly her best performance to date as the inarticulate, often contradictory Lou. ... though O’Brian’s buff, sexy, volatile Jackie is the showier, more memorable role.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2024

And besides: absurdist, gasp-inducing, melodramatic, and often intensely violent right through to the grisly, surrealist end, Love Lies Bleeding is entertaining enough without having to do all of the heavy-lifting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2024

Not many artists are this brave when it comes to probing at our sexual desires, and what they reveal about us.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2024

If Saint Maude was a slow burn portrait of loneliness and obsession with a killer's sting on its tail, this is a brilliantly visceral sucker punch of a film.

Full Review | May 7, 2024

The film is dark and often intensely gruesome, but there's a terrific undercurrent of raw emotion even in the more outrageous situations. So as it closes its grip on us, the movie becomes a skilfully lurid, heady mix of romance, murder and bodybuilding.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

this caper lives up to the internet hype, cementing its two stars as cult heroes, and confirming its director as an exciting talent.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

Kristen Stewart gives the performance she’s been wanting to give her whole career in Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding, a hard-knuckled, hard-boiled B-movie on steroids that comes on like a cross between the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple and Thelma & Louise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2024

Love Lies Bleeding’s portrait of doomed, dangerous romance knows where it’s going: straight into the pantheon of New Queer Cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2024

This is a movie that will find its people. And once it does, cult status is more or less assured.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2024

It’s an irresistible collage of tones and genres, fusing to create something that’s far more original than just Coen Brothers karaoke.

Full Review | May 5, 2024