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Luv
Directed by
Sheldon Candis
R
2012
1h 34m
Drama
,
Crime
6.0
35%
61%
5.8
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An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the ex-convict uncle he idolizes.
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Cast of Luv
Common
Uncle Vincent
Michael Rainey Jr.
Woody
Danny Glover
Arthur
Dennis Haysbert
Mr. Fish
Charles S. Dutton
Cofield
Meagan Good
Beverly
Michael Kenneth Williams
Detective Holloway
Russell Hornsby
Detective Pratt
Sheldon Candis
Director / Screenplay
Justin Wilson
Screenplay
Illya Radysh
Art Direction
Liza Grant
Set Decoration
Gavin Kelly
Director Of Photography
Amela Bakšić
Costume Design
Diane Hammond
Makeup Department Head
Sarah Levenstein
Script Supervisor
Jeff Wishengrad
Editor
Nuno Malo
Original Music Composer
Mary Vernieu
Casting
Lindsay Graham Ahanonu
Casting
Luv Ratings & Reviews
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
When Rainey Jr. and Common get into their screaming matches, it's powerful stuff.
Punch Drunk Critics
Roxana Hadadi
The finale is too melodramatic to be powerful.
ScreenCrush
Jordan Hoffman
if interpreted as "a fable" you may be able to shrug it off.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Director-co-writer Sheldon Candis stretches a lot of the time, a romantic story seems to have been cut drastically, and the film's climax is far too typical.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Even the boarded-up row houses look romantic.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
A sometimes taut and occasionally preposterous day in the life of an 11-year-old accompanying his uncle on business in Baltimore.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
What begins as a promising peek into the tragic cycle of waylaid promise that's crippling broken inner-city families is itself dispiritingly pulled sideways in the Baltimore-set indie "LUV."
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Both for good and for ill, "LUV" has a film-school feeling about it, and channels a legacy of fatalistic American crime cinema that includes "Mean Streets" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
NPR
Joel Arnold
Saved from its predictable plotline by a strong cast and a central relationship written and performed with sensitivity, LUV reveals the stakes of trusting in a role model and the costs when that person turns out to be human.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
"LUV" may not convince with Woody's aggressively telescoped transformation. But the actors compensate.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It does not entirely succeed, but at its best "Luv" shows the kind of heart and intelligence that is always welcome - and often missing - in American movies.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The first half of the movie is painfully tense, drawing us into a relationship that we desperately want to see work. But the screenplay lets its characters down, as it devolves into platitudes and melodrama.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
his contains plenty of incidental pleasures, including some vibrant images of contemporary Baltimore and fun character turns from Charles S. Dutton, Danny Glover, and Dennis Haysbert.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The rapper and actor Common has become a highly skilled screen star, but this touchy-feely dud does him wrong.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Luv is split right down the middle between preposterousness and truth, and between amateurishness and confidence.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is a film about African Americans that sidesteps all the usual, hopeful cliches and comments on how one failed generation raises another.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
A kind of "Training Day" hoping for interstitial Terrence Malick poetry in the Baltimore landscape of "The Wire" with the occasional sensationalism of an action film.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Although Common and Rainey make a well-matched duo, their chemistry is frequently squandered by a script (co-written by director Sheldon Candis and Justin Wilson) that boxes them into impossible roles in one clichéd scene after another.
Slant Magazine
R. Kurt Osenlund
As a film that largely works as a subdued twist on the familiar drama about crime and family, LUV needed more intimacy and focus.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Candis generally displays solid skills, and clearly works well with actors.
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