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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottA small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center.
- 90NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenCrazy Heart gets to you like a good country song--not because it tells you something new, but because it tells it well. It's the singer, not the song.
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceIt's merely a well-done, adult American movie--that is to say, a rarity.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumBridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.
- 80VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyEver-youthful in his looks and energy, Bridges now stands as one of Hollywood's great old pros, incapable of making a false move.
- 80SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekBridges performance in Crazy Heart, for my money the finest male performance of the year, reels us right back to understanding why: Instead of dressing up words, he sends them out naked. It's everything he subtracts that matters.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversEven when you know what's coming, Crazy Heart haunts you like a classic country song. It's a mesmerizer. So is Bad Blake. This dude also abides.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttCrazy Heart lacks that spark of originality. So what Fox Searchlight has salvaged essentially is a highly watchable performance by Bridges, one of many he has furnished throughout a long career.
- 70The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyIt has a gentle, unforced rhythm, and what’s there is good and true. But there’s not enough of it--the movie needs more plot, more complication, more conflict.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfA manufactured kid-in-jeopardy climax and Blake’s rehab stint blow the mood. Until then, this is great American acting.