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We're shown so many symptoms that, regardless of which actor is playing the hero, there's little relief from the prevailing grimness, and less sense of a life in full.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Love & Mercy
The Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson
2015 · 2h · PG-13
Drama, History, Music
Directed by
Bill Pohlad
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Love & Mercy
Overview
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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Fresh
When you consider all the ways that "Love & Mercy" could have gone terribly wrong, and how full of life it is in the end (and, yes, of love and mercy), I think the end product is almost miraculous.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
Unnerving as it is thrilling, as visually and aurally vivid as it is emotionally harrowing.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh
Dano and Cusack never let us forget that Wilson is human before he is anything else - genius, icon, legend.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
After seeing "Love & Mercy," you'll find it nearly impossible to resist the urge to download (or re-listen to) a dozen Beach Boys classics.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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