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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen RantFerdosa AbdiScreen RantFerdosa AbdiWith dazzling lead performances from Jimmy O. Yang and Nina Dobrev, Love Hard will surely be a Christmas romantic comedy worth revisiting every year.
- 70IGNIGNLove Hard isn’t reinventing the wheel, but Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang are adorable to watch in this feel-good Christmas rom-com.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeAn inoffensive time-filler that’s hard to love but easy to like.
- 40The New York TimesConcepción de LeónThe New York TimesConcepción de LeónIn presenting a female character who is attractive, but bereft of substance, the movie subverts its own premise.
- 40VarietyCourtney HowardVarietyCourtney HowardWith its prevailing sentiments on dating in the digital age feeling more than a decade old, and themes centered on honesty and shallowness ringing hollow, this feature is fairly forgettable.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s a Hallmark Channel holiday movie on a Netflix budget. The characters are bland, the performances not much better and the writing almost instantly awful — tin-eared, clumsy ESL grammar and usage, the works.
- 33IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichLike most of Netflix’s seasonal assembly line of yuletide fare, “Love Hard” is both too well-cast for the Hallmark Channel and too half-assed for movie theaters. It’s likewise adrift between rom-com nostalgia, reckoning with the anxieties of dating in the digital age, and simply hitting enough data points to give the algorithm what it wants for Christmas.
- 25RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloRogerEbert.comMonica CastilloSome moments are sweeter than others, but overall, this cookie cutter rom-com has nothing more or less than what its subgenre demands.