A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Like Crazy is a gruelling exercise in trying to care about a sweet but shallow couple who lack gumption and plane tickets. The performances are fine, the scenery is pretty. I just wasn’t crazy about the movie.
Realism rules in this transatlantic heartbreaker. With stellar turns, particularly from Jones, this is your Valentine’s Day date sorted.
Like Crazy has much to offer; just don’t take a first date.
If drama is life with the dull bits cut out, this erroneously titled transatlantic indie romance seems intent on reinstating them in a misplaced bid for authenticity.
It's the terrifically natural performances of the two leads that seal the deal and keep you interested in how it all turns out.
Finely acted and partly improvised, the picture captures nicely the highs and lows of first love. It’s less fun but more truthful than a standard rom-com.
An unexpected and deeply moving tale of the fragility of young romance.
Like Crazy is a reminder of the awful fact that all choices are permanent, to some degree. Life cannot be rewound and done over. It's a grownup love story.
Wit, tenderness and outmanoeuvrings: that’s what we get from a film setting out, with thoughtfulness and charm, to test the chestnut that true love is impervious to time and space.
I really wanted to love it, though for most of the time I liked it well enough.
Enjoyably soppy dates.
Like Crazy promotes an overpowering desire to grab Felicty Jones and Anton Yelchin's main characters by the shoulders and give them a good shake.
Like Crazy captures the joys, terrors and fragility of young love thanks to its two stars who share some serious chemistry.
Like Crazy stands up as a rich, personal love story, but also as a piquant distillation of what the young go through when they leave college pumped full of hopes and fears, before deflating slowly into adult stability.
Likable, lightweight, bittersweet.
Felicity Jones shines in Drake Doremus’ deceptively simple romance, a refreshing take on an age-old dilemma.
Drake Doremus
Drake Doremus: it took great care to make Like Crazy look so natural
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