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07/28/07
Lonely Hearts (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 20
Rotten:19
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Consensus: Several genres and plotlines intertwine in Lonely Hearts but don’t connect, creating an uneven and unsatisfying film.
Theatrical Release: 27-07-2007
Synopsis: LONELY HEARTS is the brutal retelling of the true-life tale of Martha Beck (Selma Hayek) and Raymond Fernandez (Jared Leto), a murderous grifter couple who chose their victims via the personal ads of local papers. It was one of the more... [More]
Starring: Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, John Travolta, James Gandolfini
Director: Todd Robinson
Reviews for Lonely Hearts
Top Critic
Leto's layered performance as the nattily dressing dandy with no remorse is truly impressive.
08/25/08
Un buen ejemplo de cine negro, género fuera de moda que aún conserva su encanto.
04/08/08
A good, not great, movie that benefits from nice period detail and some strong performances (especially Hayek and Leto), even if the real-life Beck was a heavyset, homely mess not anywhere near as attractive as Hayek.
08/01/07
Except for the fact that innocent lives are lost here, it would be easy to walk away from Lonely Hearts saying "so what?".
07/20/07
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07/13/07
Hayek's alluring temptress persona reinvents Beck's obese nag as a sexed up femme fatale, in an exceedingly odd way trumping Leto's wimpy, henpecked unconvincing womanizer.
07/02/07
A consistently entertaining and occasionally gut-wrenching tale that deserves at least some measure of notice.
06/25/07
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06/16/07
The only juice in Lonely Hearts comes from the thousands of volts shooting through the electric chair in which Martha and Ray are executed in back-to-back scenes that are disturbingly detailed and drawn out.
04/21/07
Most astute is Leto's impeccable representation of an amoral snake of a man with the looks and sociopathology to fulfill the requirements of his abject trade.
04/20/07
The story of Fernandez and Beck may be grotesque comedy, but Todd Robinson tells it straight, without flinching from its piteousness, horror, or banality.
04/16/07
Hayek is a standard-issue femme fatale, damaged on the inside but flawless on the surface.
04/13/07
Their amorality isn't presented in a conventional manner; it's depicted in an unremarkable, matter-of-fact style that makes it all the more realistic -- and all the more unsettling.
04/13/07
It's with the focus on the police, though, that the script fails to truly connect.
04/13/07
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April 28, 2007:
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