A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
"Only Lovers Left Alive" breathes new and intriguing life into the vampire genre.
– Calvin Wilson,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
1 May 2014
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You don't so much watch this movie as slink into it, joining an unlikely pair of lovers and enjoying their slouchy elegance.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
1 May 2014
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Somehow it's all very entertaining and weird and fitting, with Detroit looking like a place any vampire would be happy to be.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
2 May 2014
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This is a film that finds horror not in the extreme, but in the mundane. That alone makes it a worthwhile entry in a genre that it both inhabits and rises above.