--- title: "Die My Love: the reviews" canonical: "https://film.one/film/die-my-love/reviews" title_page: "https://film.one/film/die-my-love" critics_score: 81 critics_reviews: 15 licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Die My Love (2025): what the critics said Critics' score 81 from 15 reviews: 13 positive, 2 mixed, 0 negative. Most critics come away impressed, and nearly all of them are talking about Jennifer Lawrence. The praise is for the ferocity of her performance as a new mother coming apart: physical, uninhibited, often funny in the middle of the horror. Lynne Ramsay’s direction is the other point of agreement, with the reviews crediting the sound design and hallucinatory imagery for putting the viewer inside Grace’s head rather than watching from outside. Several reviewers also single out Robert Pattinson’s quieter work as the husband. The reservations cluster around distance. Den of Geek and Paste find the film keeps Grace at arm’s length, showing the breakdown without explaining it, and Variety argues it would rather wallow in the chaos than understand it. The Los Angeles Times calls it exasperating. The one outright pan comes from The Times, which finds it incoherent and repetitive. Otherwise the spread is narrow: a run of four-star notices with a few sixes and sevens beneath. ## Time Out — Dave Calhoun Rating 5/5. 17 May 2025. Festival review. Ramsay delivers an artistically exciting and deeply uncomfortable portrait of a marriage and mind in free fall, with Lawrence giving a wildly impressive performance. The film is bleak yet has a musical, black-comic, big-hearted spirit that pulls the viewer through the despair. [Read the review](https://www.timeout.com/movies/die-my-love-review-2025) ## Empire — Iana Murray Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 6 November 2025. The critic praises the feral energy and Lawrence's uninhibited, career-best performance in this raw, animalistic character study of motherhood and postpartum psychosis. It notes the film can occasionally get lost in its turbulent dream-state but remains arresting and immersive. [Read the review](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/die-my-love/) ## Evening Standard — Nick Howells Fi1m's normalised score 80/100 (inferred from the text). 10 November 2025. The critic calls it a daring, full-throttle blast with bonkers brilliance, highlighting Lawrence's superb, fun, and unhinged performance as a mother in meltdown alongside a spiky, audacious portrait that mixes heartbreak and berserk energy. It notes some tonal unevenness but finds the subject matter fitting. [Read the review](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-lynne-ramsay-b1253578.html) ## Radio Times — James Mottram Rating 4/5. 19 May 2025. Festival review. Ramsay crafts a supremely well-crafted atmosphere piece that showcases Lawrence's raw talents in a measured decline into postpartum depression and mental unraveling. It is absorbing, quietly devastating and heartbreaking, with stunning cinematography building a cacophony of noise inside the protagonist's head. [Read the review](https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/die-my-love-review/) ## The Telegraph Rating 4/5. 6 November 2025. The review hails Lawrence's prowling, feral, unhinged intensity as Grace in this delirious drama of hormonal chaos and fragile ferocity, crediting Ramsay's hallucinatory style and the raw emotional power of the lead performance. [Read the review](https://telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/11/06/jennifer-lawrence-is-a-prowling-feral-wonder-in-die-my-love) ## The i Paper — Francesca Steele Fi1m's normalised score 75/100 (inferred from the text). 7 November 2025. The critic finds Lawrence captivating and intelligent in this strange, angry, maximalist depiction of maternal rage and psychosis, capturing visceral confusion through folk-horror strangeness and expressionist imagery. It praises the unflinching approach to rage without easy resolution or clichés. [Read the review](https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/jennifer-lawrence-captivating-die-my-love-4020137) ## Financial Times Rating ★★★★☆. 6 November 2025. The review celebrates Ramsay's rare new film as a wild, impressionistic portrait of a doomed romance and a woman losing her mind, spotlighting Lawrence's amazing, shape-shifting performance that mixes comedy, savagery and vulnerability. [Read the review](https://ft.com/content/ab442883-ea10-41c5-a8a6-c88b789b467b) ## Los Angeles Times — Amy Nicholson 5 November 2025. The critic describes the film as a stubborn and exasperating postpartum nightmare that makes parenthood feel like being handcuffed to a sinking anchor, with Lawrence giving everything to a wild, brutal role but ultimately left dangling. Nicholson singles out Pattinson's subtle, clever performance as Jackson for praise while complaining about the lack of perspective into Grace and reductive elements in depicting her depression. [Read the review](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-11-05/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-sissy-spacek-lynne-ramsay) ## Screen Daily 17 May 2025. Festival review. Lawrence gives a gripping, naturalistic performance as a new mother unravelling in terrifying fashion, lighting Ramsay's slow-burn psychological drama. The film examines postpartum depression, mental health and the passionate bond between volatile lovers with unnerving rhythms and fragile love-story elements. [Read the review](https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-sparks-lynne-ramsays-portrait-of-a-troubled-marriage/5205177.article) ## Sight and Sound 5 June 2025. Festival review. The critic describes the film as a ferocious, maximalist psychodrama that portrays a woman's mental breakdown with vivid, unapologetic filmmaking. Lawrence delivers a fearless, full-body performance in this harrowing, solipsistic descent that offers no easy sympathy. [Read the review](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/die-my-love-lynne-ramsay-unlocks-fearless-performance-from-jennifer-lawrence) ## The Guardian — Peter Bradshaw 17 May 2025. Festival review. The critic praises Jennifer Lawrence's ferocious performance as a woman descending into bipolar disorder and postnatal distress, and highlights Lynne Ramsay's muscular direction, intense sound design, and vivid cinematography that create an overwhelmingly sensual and angry study of passion and meltdown. [Read the review](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/17/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-excels-in-intensely-sensual-study-of-a-woman-in-meltdown) ## The Hollywood Reporter — David Rooney 17 May 2025. Festival review. Ramsay's jagged character study is a punishing watch that pays off in the end as a thoughtful examination of a complex relationship. Lawrence delivers a no-holds-barred performance as a woman spiraling into psychosis, though the film keeps her at a distance and is easier to feel for Pattinson's despairing husband. [Read the review](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-1236220430/) ## The New York Times 6 November 2025. The review highlights Jennifer Lawrence's career-defining performance opposite Robert Pattinson in Lynne Ramsay’s latest as a mother in a demanding role. It notes the film's intense exploration of the character's descent while acknowledging it is not an easy watch. [Read the review](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/movies/die-my-love-review.html) ## The Observer — Wendy Ide 7 November 2025. Wendy Ide calls the film the most successful recent portrayal of the feral side of new motherhood, thanks to Lawrence's fearless, physically committed performance and Ramsay's bold, disorienting direction that immerses viewers in Grace's feverish, hallucinatory experience. [Read the review](https://observer.co.uk/culture/film/article/die-my-love-explores-the-feral-side-of-motherhood) ## The Times — Kevin Maher Rating ★☆☆☆☆. 5 November 2025. The critic pans the film as an awful, incoherent splatterfest of psychotic breakdown tropes that wastes Lawrence and Pattinson, with only occasional flashes of interest amid the excessive, repetitive excesses. [Read the review](https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-q09wxcjhv) ## Variety — Owen Gleiberman 17 May 2025. Festival review. The critic calls it a showy yet strange and baffling hyperbolic projection of postpartum struggles, more eager to wallow in violent dysfunction than understand it, with Lawrence explosive but emotionally reined in. Gleiberman singles out Ramsay's gift for staging baroque breakdowns for note while complaining that the film lacks answers or responsible adult context around the characters. [Read the review](https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-1236401527/) ## The Playlist — Rafa Sales Ross Rating A-. 20 May 2025. Festival review. The review praises the film as a thorny psychological thriller rooted in the sustained unrest of early parenthood. Lawrence's mesmerizing, propulsive lead performance is highlighted as the undeniable force, alongside strong supporting turns. [Read the review](https://theplaylist.net/die-my-love-review-lynne-ramsay-returns-with-thorny-psychological-thriller-crowned-by-brilliant-jennifer-lawrence-cannes-20250520/) ## Deadline — Damon Wise Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 17 May 2025. Festival review. The critic praises Lynne Ramsay’s mesmerizing film as a brutal but beautiful portrait of a woman’s mental disintegration due to post-natal depression. They single out Jennifer Lawrence’s standout performance, suggesting it could earn her another Oscar nomination. [Read the review](https://deadline.com/2025/05/die-my-love-review-lynne-ramsay-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-1236402485/) ## NME — Lou Thomas Fi1m's normalised score 85/100 (inferred from the text). 21 May 2025. Festival review. The critic praises Ramsay’s intense, twisting direction and Lawrence’s finest work to date as a committed, prowling performance that makes the film thoroughly compelling and awards-worthy. [Read the review](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-3863494) ## Collider — Emma Kiely Rating 8/10. 17 May 2025. Festival review. The critic calls it a defining film on the beauty and misery of motherhood, with Ramsay delivering a stylish, bombastic outpouring that dissects how women are changed by children against their will. They single out Jennifer Lawrence's hilarious and devastating tour-de-force performance as the standout element anchoring the uncompromising look at maternal isolation and needs. [Read the review](https://collider.com/die-my-love-review-jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson/) ## /Film — Chris Evangelista Rating 8/10. 7 November 2025. The critic calls it a darkly funny, highly disturbing psychological domestic freakout anchored by Lawrence's feral, career-best performance. Ramsay's elemental direction and the film's off-kilter, haunting quality are noted positively. [Read the review](https://www.slashfilm.com/2019164/die-my-love-movie-review/) ## HeyUGuys — Linda Marric Rating 4/5. 18 October 2025. Festival review. The critic finds the film a devastating and mesmerising exploration of motherhood, mental illness, and identity that refuses neat resolution. Lawrence's fearless lead performance and Ramsay's atmospheric direction are singled out as highlights. [Read the review](https://www.heyuguys.com/die-my-love-review-lff-2025/) ## The Wrap Fi1m's normalised score 75/100 (inferred from the text). 17 May 2025. Festival review. The critic finds the film a haunting domestic horror with outstanding performances from Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. They praise Ramsay’s direction for its spell-casting immersion in the unsettling aspects of the story, though note some rough edges. [Read the review](https://www.thewrap.com/die-my-love-review-robert-pattinson-and-jennifer-lawrence-are-outstanding-in-haunting-domestic-horror/) ## Paste — Jesse Hassenger Rating 6.9/10. 5 November 2025. The critic describes the film as a beguiling but frustrating primal scream about a mother's mental unraveling in rural isolation, with Ramsay's uncompromising style yielding striking visuals and Lawrence's raw, fearless physical performance. They single out the lack of concrete everyday details and resistance to sustained relational evocation as what undercuts its power. [Read the review](https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/lynne-ramsay/jennifer-lawrence-robert-pattinson-die-my-love-lynne-ramsay) ## Den of Geek — David Crow Fi1m's normalised score 65/100 (inferred from the text). 6 November 2025. The critic finds Ramsay’s stark meditation on motherhood compelling in its visual metaphors and Lawrence’s committed performance but faults the film for remaining distant and failing to fully internalize Grace’s interior perspective or anxieties. [Read the review](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jennifer-lawrence-rose-byrne-mom-trauma-cinema/) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Our review: https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md