Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "Bravely wearing his heart on his sleeve, James Gray directs the tender and terrific TWO LOVERS as an antidote to the virus of the hip....Phoenix, in one of his best performances, finds the bruised romantic in Leonard Kraditor." 02/05/2009Box Office
"[Alvarez] weaves the threads of her town masterfully, incorporating its characters' ancient habits and unadulterated spirits with aplomb." 02/01/2009 USA Today
"TWO LOVERS is an involving, gently paced and well-cast drama about a tortured soul and his efforts at redemption....Joaquin Phoenix gives a superbly raw and excruciatingly vulnerable performance..." 02/13/2009 New York Times
"[I]ts palette of emotions, like its rich and somber 35-millimeter cinematography, departs from the hand-held, hi-def, discursive style associated with directors like Joe Swanberg and Aaron Katz, harking back to an older, artistically more conservative film tradition of lush, earnest melodrama." 02/13/2009 Los Angeles Times
"Themes of loneliness, alienation and unrequited love are not new, but there is always that sense of the unexpected in Phoenix that keeps you curious....Phoenix is at his best with Paltrow's bruised sparrow of a girl..." 02/13/2009 Wall Street Journal
"This is an inspired performance by a superb actor in an elegantly grave romantic drama..." 02/13/2009 Entertainment Weekly
"Mopey, sallow, and nearly mute, Leonard seems a fatally broken man. But Phoenix, in a feat of acting that keeps revealing new layers, gives him mordant flashes of insight and sex appeal." -- Grade: A- 02/20/2009 Washington Post
"The movie's chief value is to preserve Phoenix at the height of his wary physical grace, which recalls a young Marlon Brando." 02/27/2009 Chicago Sun-Times
"TWO LOVERS is anything but traditional, romantic or a comedy. It is a film of unusual perception, played at perfect pitch by Phoenix, Shaw, Paltrow and the other actors." 02/25/2009 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Maverick filmmaker James Gray's rare, special film feels like the best kind of modern love story: one that could have taken place anywhere at any time....Powered all the way by a full cast of emotional, compulsive performances." 04/01/2009 Premiere
3 stars out of 5 -- "A straight-forward love story that has some really good performances, a few nice twists, and seems genuine and heartfelt." 06/30/2009 | 
