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The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.
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100
In essence, we get to study Brian's break with sanity and his eventual healing, but by keeping the focus tight on these two moments, the film becomes emotionally exhilarating.
90
A wonderfully innervating cure for the common musical biopic, Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy vibrantly illuminates two major breakthroughs — one artistic, one personal — in the life of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson.
83
Love & Mercy is an engrossing portrait of Wilson's specific artistic inclinations, which draw from no real precedent.
83
Love & Mercy isn't a standard celebration nor a traditional music biopic. Instead, it's a survival story.
80
It’s creative and experimental in just the right spirit, though with an asymmetric flaw. The film is a kind of diptych in which one of the panels is more fully achieved than the other.
