‘Die My Love’ Review Thread

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Certified Fresh

Critics Consensus: A frenzied depiction of a common but oft-ignored experience, Die My Love might be too stylistically mannered to fully connect but gifts Jennifer Lawrence with one of her most vivid roles yet.

Critics	Score	Number of Reviews	Average Rating (Unofficial)
All Critics	76%	86	7.20/10
Top Critics	86%	35	7.40/10

Metacritic: 71 (28 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Wenlei Ma, The Nightly (AU) – Die My Love is a challenging experience that pokes and prods, makes you unsettled, gives you few answers and lets you languish in the discomfort. 3/5

Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News – Lawrence is mercurial and magnetic. Ramsay demands a lot from the Oscar winner, and Lawrence is up to the challenge. She is panther-like, vulnerable and furious. 3.5/4

Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail – In a more controlled and less punishing film, Lawrence’s deeply committed performance would be the discussion of the year. Yet she has tossed herself to the wolves here, the star provided no care or cover by her director.

Richard Brody, The New Yorker – What’s lacking throughout, with this suppression of practicalities in favor of shocks and thrills, is imagination. Ramsay drowns her story in the extraordinary and can’t be bothered with what’s dramatic in the ordinary elements of her characters’ lives.

Nick Schager, The Daily Beast – With an uninhibited fieriness that’s rooted in profound need and longing, Lawrence—opposite a beleaguered Robert Pattinson—delivers one the finest performances of her career, energizing the writer/director’s portrait of feminine rage, sorrow, and mania.

Michael Ordoña, San Francisco Chronicle – It's a slow-burn psychological drama populated by imperfect people struggling with painful realities. Instead of a dramatic arc, it's a dramatic decline. 2/4

Billie Melissa, Newsweek – Ramsay shines a light and lets it burn bright for the women who have all, at some point, uttered Grace's words: "I'm right here, you just can't see me."

Marshall Shaffer, Slant Magazine – Lynne Ramsay unleashes her most galaxy-brained concepts with a full-bodied commitment that should be the envy of filmmakers with similar ambitions. 3.5/4

Linda Marric, HeyUGuys – Die, My Love confirms Ramsay once again as one of the most fearless filmmakers working today. 4/5

Nick Howells, London Evening Standard – While not her finest, it’s a daring, full-throttle blast. So here’s to not waiting another eight years for more of the bonkers brilliance of Lynne Ramsay. 4/5

Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph (UK) – No one does bored rage quite like Jennifer Lawrence. Her role in Die, My Love is a delirious showcase: prowling, feral, clawing at the walls. 4/5

Jessica Kiang, Sight & Sound – Ramsay’s extraordinarily vivid filmmaking unlocks a whole new level of fearless, full-body commitment from Jennifer Lawrence.

Tomris Laffly, AV Club – There is a lot of earned wisdom and lived-in pain in Ramsay’s masterwork. Swinging for the fences on all fours, Jennifer Lawrence delivers one of her most fearless performances to date in Ramsay’s psychosexual marital thriller. A

Justin Chang, The New Yorker – This adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel feels less enhanced than overwhelmed by the flailing intensity of Ramsay’s approach; the director pushes her frayed-nerves formalism to punishing and, finally, unrevealing extremes.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star – Lynne Ramsay skilfully transforms a novel centred on maternal depression into a gripping and intense screen nail-biter, worthy of a booking at the Overlook Hotel multiplex.

Alison Willmore, New York Magazine/Vulture – [Lawrence] exudes such a gravitational force that she curves all the other performances in the film around her energy, with Pattinson a whiny, ineffectual boy in her orbit, and Sissy Spacek quietly concerned but in decline herself as Jackson’s mother.

Siddhant Adlakha, Observer – Although it eventually loses staying power, Lynne Ramsay’s ferocious relationship drama Die, My Love quickly seeps beneath your skin, practically holding you hostage in its initial half. 2.5/4

Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine – What Lawrence does in Die, My Love is so delicately textured, even within its bold expressiveness, and its fiery anger, that it leaves you scrambling for adjectives.

Dave Calhoun, Time Out – It’s a deeply raw and honest film. It’s bleak, but it also has a musical, black-comic, big-hearted spirit that pulls you through the despair. 5/5

Esther Zuckerman, The Daily Beast – The second coming of Jennifer Lawrence is here, and it’s astounding.

Shubhra Gupta, The Indian Express – Motherhood is not always what it is cracked up to be, and only Ramsay can say it in this unflinching, clear-eyed fashion.

Raphael Abraham, Financial Times – The beautiful princess may well have settled down with that handsome woodcutter at the edge of the forest, but until now we never saw what happened after she had a baby. 4/5

Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com – An unforgettable cinematic experience, a full-throated rejection of the simplistic manner in which we sometimes talk about complex mental and relationship issues. It’s a killer.

Jo-Ann Titmarsh, London Evening Standard – This blurring of what might be real and what is merely Grace’s imagination is discombobulating, but with all this time travelling and shape shifting, Ramsay provides a horrible glimpse into a psychotic’s mind. 4/5

Kevin Maher, The Times (UK) – Nothing has dramatic impact. Nobody seems to believe anything they’re doing. 1/5

Hannah Strong, Little White Lies – The cinema of Lynne Ramsay is cinema of the senses, raw and delicate and alive… Jennifer Lawrence completely understands this, inhibiting Grace with a total lack of vanity.

Tim Grierson, Screen International – While it would be inaccurate to call Die, My Love a dark comedy, Lawrence’s underrated comedic gifts come in handy as Grace (metaphorically) sets fire to the banal domestic trappings she resents around her.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter – The closing stretch has a retroactive effect on everything that’s come before. It transforms Die My Love from a self-destructive solo show to a thoughtful examination of a complex relationship and all the patience and understanding it requires.

Chase Hutchinson, TheWrap – Even as it’s not Ramsay’s best film, even a minor work from the filmmaker is still better than just about any other director. There remains a haunting power that she’s able to wield over her audience.

Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair – Ramsay’s jumble of pictures and sound is bound together by Lawrence’s confident, fearless gravity. It’s quite something to behold: a comedic performance that manages convincing notes of devastation, or a dramatic turn that is also screamingly funny.

Sophie Monks Kaufman, Independent (UK) – Each of Ramsay’s previous films, save Ratcatcher, had source texts with knotty plots to scaffold her visions. Here, she brings out the big guns visually and in Lawrence’s performance too fast and Grace’s unhinged behaviour lacks the edge of surprise. 3/5

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian – There is, simply, overwhelming muscular strength in this picture: in [Lynne Ramsay's] direction, in Paul Davies’s sound design, in the saturated colour of Seamus McGarvey’s cinematography, and of course in the performances themselves. 4/5

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire – What Lawrence achieves here is extremely impressive, a marquee movie star throwing herself with abandon into a filmmaker’s warped and demandingly miserable vision. B

Owen Gleiberman, Variety – The burdens of motherhood can be every bit as staggering as the joys. Die My Love, for all of Ramsay’s talent, isn’t designed to explore that experience. It’s designed, rather, as a kind of thesis movie: reckless on the surface but overdetermined.

Nicholas Barber, BBC.com – Ramsay's film-making flair lights up scene after scene, but as the narrative fragments, and reality and fantasy blur, you're left with the urge to read the novel to find out what's actually happening.

SYNOPSIS:

A portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.

CAST:

• Jennifer Lawrence as Grace
• Robert Pattinson as Jackson
• Lakeith Stanfield as Karl
• Sissy Spacek as Pam
• Nick Nolte as Harry

DIRECTED BY: Lynne Ramsay

SCREENPLAY BY: Edna Walsh, Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch

BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Ariana Harwicz

PRODUCED BY: Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Ciarrocchi, Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill, Andrea Calderwood

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Rachel Smith, Bruce Franklin, Rick Yorn, Chris Donnelly, Lynne Ramsay, Robert Pattinson, Jamin O'Brien, Ariana Harwicz

CO-PRODUCERS: Seth Spector, Daniel Angeles, Lisa Frechette

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Seamus McGarvey

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Tim Grimes

EDITED BY: Toni Froschhammer

COSTUME DESIGNER: Catherine George

MUSIC BY: Raife Burchell, Lynne Ramsay, George Vjestica

CASTING BY: Lucy Pardee

RUNTIME: 118 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: November 7, 2025