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Cast
- CommonUncle Vincent
- Michael Rainey Jr.Woody
- Danny GloverArthur
- Dennis HaysbertMr. Fish
- Charles S. DuttonCofield
- Meagan GoodBeverly
- Michael Kenneth WilliamsDetective Holloway
- Russell HornsbyDetective Pratt
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Here is a film about African Americans that sidesteps all the usual, hopeful cliches and comments on how one failed generation raises another. - 75
Charlotte Observer
The big names in the cast add atmosphere in small doses, especially when Haysbert and Glover combine. - 63
Slant Magazine
As a film that largely works as a subdued twist on the familiar drama about crime and family, LUV needed more intimacy and focus. - 63
Chicago Tribune
An uneven but strongly acted debut feature from co-writer and director Sheldon Candis. - 50
Variety
Heartfelt and formulaic in equal measure. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Even if some of them are playing hackneyed gangster-film types, the strength of the actors makes it almost possible to forgive the formulaic plotting and artificially movie-ish developments. Candis and Justin Wilson's screenplay stretches credibility thinner and thinner as the story advances. - 50
The A.V. Club
Candis and Wilson sandbag their actors with dialogue that's a mix of dull exposition and pulp clichés, and rarely natural-sounding or colorful. - 40
Time Out
With its rock-skimming male bonding alternating between grisly homicides and a florid Mexican standoff that begets a tidy take-the-money-and-run finale, this tale seems less timely than merely tall.
