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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The A.V. ClubCourtney HowardThe A.V. ClubCourtney HowardThe result is a genuinely moving, absurdist autobiography of a dynamic persona in flux that’s as campy as it is charming, ridiculous as it is rapturous, preposterous as it is profound.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinIf Lopez’s screen career has often tended towards the unsurprising, well, here is the antidote: perhaps the least predictable film ever made. What’s most exciting about it, though, is that behind the lunacy, so much of it works.
- 75ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerIt’s the sort of odd curio made possible by the streaming age, and even if you’re not a huge fan of Lopez’s work, it’s fascinating to see just how much and how little she’s ready to say about herself; an experience more presentationally honest than truly honest about her life and her choices.
- 75RogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesRogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesRegardless of its technical faults, there is bravery here as Lopez opens up her old wounds for all to see, sharing her biggest mistakes, her deepest scars, and the work she put in to heal herself first, before she could be ready for the love story that she grew up so desperately wishing for.
- 75New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNew York PostJohnny OleksinskiJ.Lo has delivered an over-the-top song-and-dance camptacular, both gravely serious and deliriously funny, providing one cuckoo moment after another.
- 75Paste MagazineShayna Maci WarnerPaste MagazineShayna Maci WarnerHelmed by veteran music video director Dave Meyers and co-written by Lopez and Matt Walton, the visual album is, first and foremost, dazzlingly romantic. It is also minorly self-reflexive, gratifyingly excessive, ham-fistedly and lovingly referential, and gleefully riding the pendulum between the nostalgic warmth of a well-designed movie musical and the cool uncanny valley of a contemporary digital sci-fi.
- 70ColliderTania HussainColliderTania HussainTo watch This Is Me…Now: A Love Story is to admit Lopez’s ambitions as an artist stretches well beyond what people say about her. But even though the film acts as a manifesto of her creativity, not all of it works.
- 60EmpireJohn NugentEmpireJohn NugentThis is a garish, frequently insane, diamond-encrusted fantasy trip into the mind of a superstar, and we should be grateful to have even limited access.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe film is not good, but it is singular — and absolutely chaotic.
- 42IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandEven in this vision (this panorama!), Lopez only goes so far when it comes to excavating her own heart and its mysteries. Perhaps that’s why she eventually kickstarts that heart with a magical pink rose, the most expected piece of romantic paraphernalia, a symbol, but not an actual story.