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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIf you like romantic movies but find Hollywood's increasingly sterile formulas to be a poisonous bore, Love Me if You Dare offers an antidote.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittMuch of the style strains too hard to be cute, but true romantics may shed copious tears of sympathy and empathy.
- 70L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThe rueful ghost of François Truffaut hovers over writer-director Yann Samuell's wonderfully capricious tale of Gallic lovers with no idea of when to say finis.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsA perversely dark romantic comedy shot and edited in the contemporary fairy-tale style of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amélie." But this one has a dagger for a heart.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterDespite the sterling performances by the two main actors, the movie tends to lose pace in the second half and needs more secondary characters. But for a first time in the director's chair, Samuell shows a deftness of touch that bodes well for the future.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe award for the most annoying character to appear in a movie so far this year turns out to be a tie: It goes to both of the oh-so-swankly tormented romantic mischief makers of Love Me if You Dare.
- 40The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe film's attempts at meaning do it in. The longer it goes on and the darker it grows, the further it drifts from any kind of human experience, outside of its protagonists' particular flavor of madness.
- 40VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonValiant attempt to create a modern fairytale ends up being frustratingly creepy instead of haunting and memorable.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe movie's hyperactivity eventually yields to such revelations as Life Isn't a Game and The Biggest Dare Is Love, but the ultimate measure of its conventionality is its soundtrack.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThe film is loaded with striking visuals, high energy and all-stops portrayals from its actors, but for all of Samuell's imaginative cinematic bravura, it is, finally, mainly exasperating. Phooey on Julien and Sophie's excruciating l'amour fou.