Loving

2016 Directed by Jeff Nichols

All love is created equal

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

Joel Edgerton Ruth Negga Marton Csokas Nick Kroll Michael Shannon Bill Camp Sharon Blackwood Alano Miller Terri Abney David Jensen Jon Bass Christopher Mann Winter-Lee Holland Michael Abbott Jr. Chris Greene Will Dalton Matt Malloy Andrene Ward-Hammond D.L. Hopkins Jennifer Joyner Lance Lemon Marquis Adonis Hazelwood Brenan Young Dalyn Cleckley Quinn McPherson Jevin Crochrell Jordan Williams Jr. Georgia Crawford Micah Claiborne Show All…

Alternative Title

러빙

romance drama

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Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★ 13

Jeff Nichols' most maturely directed film yet, though Take Shelter is still my favorite film of his. Definitely gonna be an Oscar contender: it'll probably get a Best Picture nomination, and I'd put money on Ruth Negga at the very least getting a Best Actress nom; well deserved too. It's not "Oscar bait," just a film with great intentions, impressively understated performances and subtle poignancy -- no oversentimentality or grand, expository dialogue.
Review by SilentDawn ★★½ 13

49/100
Loving isn't understated, it's *barely* stated. Jeff Nichols' new installment in his consistently boring filmography utilizes a kind of languid serenity which is at peace with the chosen story and the larger resonance of its ramifications in modern culture, but it's also not a very exciting situation or one which lends its hand to engaging, articulate drama. Nichols was the perfect fit for the project, but just because sensibility lines up with intention doesn't mean it's a story meant for the cinema, and Nichols buries any chance of flourish by committing solely to the actors and tossing everything else into the fields. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga are astounding forces when it comes to embodying the indescribable love shared…
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★ 25

The thing I take away from the two latest from Jeff Nichols (so far, the only two I've seen from him) is the use of silence. Most of the film takes on a quite, slow moving, and rather calm sensibility towards each of its subjects and never breaks away from it (aside from one sequence towards the half way point).
It's something I can see most being bored by (trust me, during one of my theater checks a few days ago, I saw a guy straight up sleeping during this movie) but it's something I rather admire.
Time and time again, someone will take this sorta subject matter and over exaggerate it to the degree where it's hard to take…
Review by katie ★★★★½

"Tell the judge I love my wife."
is michael shannon a real person? can he be my dad? can i fall in love? please?
Review by Erik Nordgren ★★★★★

"tell the judge i love my wife" HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDHDHDHDHHDBHHBDDFBD IM IN PAIN
Review by alie ★★★★½

i wonder how ruth negga is going to celebrate her oscar win

Recent reviews

Review by Jackie ★★★★

Tell the judge I love my wife
😭
this movie is so understated and beautiful. For all of the things it could’ve cashed in on with a type of story like this, it’s just a portrait of love and I’m here for it.
Review by germaine ★★★

watched with my grandfather and he loved this
Review by devi ★★★

ruth and joel: did that
Review by Sebastian ★★½

This is one of those movies that technically competent, but that has absolutely nothing interesting or engaging about it, to the point where it feels like it was made solely to be shown in high school history classes.
Review by Troy Taylor ★★★½

What a pivot for Jeff Nichols to go from a film about a kid with special powers and his father running from a religious cult and the US Government, to then in the same year release a film that is a straight forward telling of the true story of the interracial marriage that went to the Supreme Court.
Loving seems such a divergence from Nichols present trajectory. Each of his films had steadily been incorporating more abstract elements or magical realism. Loving has none of that, but it definitely shares another aspect of every Nichols film, which is the lengths people are willing to go for family. Loving tells the story of the Lovings--Mildred and Richard who are black and…
Review by Samantha Herndon ★★

Solid themes, way overdone and over-scored. And what the hell is Nick Kroll doing hamming it up as the ACLU lawyer? Yeesh. Reign it in.
Review by Unofficial_RT ★★★★

Loving takes an understated approach to telling a painful -- and still relevant -- real-life tale, with sensitive performances breathing additional life into a superlative historical drama.
Review by Guilherme de Alencar Pinto ★★★½

Relata el juicio a la pareja formada por Richard Loving, blanco, y su esposa Mildred, negra. Se habían casado en 1958, cuando los matrimonios «interraciales» estaban prohibidos en el estado de Virginia y en otros 16 «estados unidos». En 1967, la Suprema Corte estadounidense falló a favor de los Loving, dictaminando la anulación de todas esas legislaciones racistas. Este film parece ser puntillosamente fiel a la letra y al espíritu de los hechos históricos, y eso lo hace muy instructivo pero también sumamente lento, estático y errático en su narración, aunque está lleno de detalles exquisitos de fotografía y montaje, y cuenta con tremendo elenco
Review by Maren ★★★

The most boring film I've ever watched without being bored.
It was a nice choice to splice the court scenes with the Loving's everyday activities, highlighting the quiet fortitude of their relationship amid a Supreme Court case.