Andie MacDowell gives the performance of her lifetime.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 15, 2020

In the end, however, LOVE AFTER LOVE is the kind of movie I respect but don't really enjoy. Grief can be numbing and LOVE AFTER is after a time as well.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2018

A gorgeously wrought drama, and hard to believe it's only Harbaugh's first, but it buzzes from the anxious energy that comes from searching for what's next

Full Review | Oct 23, 2018

So what does Love After Love deliver? Performances. Harbaugh and Mendelsohn are less interested with plot than creating an environment to let their characters screw up.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 28, 2018

I wish the pieces of Harbaugh's domestic jigsaw fit more elegantly together. Sometimes, it seems as if he's tripping into scenes the way a person might stumble into a darkened room before turning on the light.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2018

The film is a bit messy at times, but considering the circumstances on screen, that seems appropriate.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2018

The story of Love After Love is one of grieving, and it's about that process in a specific, particularly sad sort of way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2018

Maybe the most damaging factor is that [director Russ] Harbaugh does nothing to establish that the paterfamilias, first seen in reasonably good health at a family gathering, is such an emotional touchstone to his wife and sons.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2018

It's a film intentionally adrift, rambling between a loose succession of family gatherings and dinner parties with subdued style, the camera feeling like just another person at the edge of the room.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2018

An unflinching portrait of how grief can unravel a tightknit family in ways both banal and heart-wrenching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 17, 2018

Challenging, unflinching and deeply honest.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2018

Yet this movie, for all its laudable aspects, left me wanting for more, a personally frustrating turn of events to say the least.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2018

Andie MacDowell [displays] one of the best performances of her career.

Full Review | Apr 2, 2018

First-time director Russell Harbaugh presents grief as it is, in all its pain and ugliness, rather than using the convenient, uplifting short-hand that Hollywood prefers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2018

I found it a great masochistic experience.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2018

This first-time feature from writer/director Russell Harbaugh has an understated, intimate, pointillist style, with a cool jazz score that matches its improvisational tone.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2018

Central to the film's vision of love and loss is a certain realism marked by unshowy performances, un-stagy mise-en-scne, and eye-level, frequently handheld camerawork.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 30, 2018

Writer-director Russell Harbaugh's Love After Love is a remarkably cool-headed, composed piece of work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2018

Intimate, brittle tale of a family quietly spinning apart after the death of the patriarch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2018

This unflinching debut feature from Russ Harbaugh delivers something rarely seen in American movies: a warts-and-all examination of extended grief.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2018