Love Lies Bleeding
A gym manager, a bodybuilder, steroids, and a lot of bodies.
Reviewed by The Jibbi Editors
Nasty, sweaty and completely unbothered about being likeable.
- 2024
- 104 min
- 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 6.6 on IMDb
- #drama
- #romance
- #new
Our take
Rose Glass drops a lesbian romance into a 1989 New Mexico crime story and lets it get genuinely out of hand. Kristen Stewart runs a rundown gym, Katy O’Brian is passing through on her way to a Vegas competition, and within a week there is a family crime empire, a body, and a large hole in the desert.
It is very violent and the last act goes somewhere surreal that will lose some people entirely. But the relationship is written with real want in it, and it belongs to the tradition of queer noir where nobody is redeemed and that is the fun.
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Scores
Ours
- Jibbi Score — 4 out of 5 rainbows. Nasty, sweaty and completely unbothered about being likeable.
Everyone else’s
- Rotten Tomatoes — 94%, via OMDb.
- IMDb — 6.6 out of 10 from 65,772 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 77 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 6.6 out of 10 from 1,060 votes, refreshed daily.
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The plot, officially
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.