Critics reviews

The energy of “Die My Love” is unruly and aggressive... It’s all physical impulse, and the primacy of the body’s needs... Everything is vivid, but nothing is beautiful or soothing... Lawrence is an unruly presence, and her impulsiveness here (which serves her so well as a comedienne) makes her seem dangerous and reckless.

Lynne Ramsay's [Die My Love is a] darkly funny, highly disturbing psychological domestic freakout... Lawrence is a consistently skilled actor, and [the film] has her delivering arguably a career-best performance. What [the actress] does here is feral and primal... Raw, hilarious, [and] unsettling.

Lawrence brings a weighty intelligence to an otherwise aggravating character... There is no linearity to an experience as visceral and corporeal as this; the past and the present blur, as do reality and fantasy. It’s as close as we’re going to get to being right inside Grace’s head... There is something deeply satisfying about a narrative prepared to tackle rage without descending into the cliché that it dissipates as soon as we discuss it.

The main word that comes to mind when you watch [Lawrence] embrace an ever-enveloping madness [in Die My Love] is “free”... You’re witnessing the sort of in-the-zone flow that’s normally associated with jazz soloists and pro athletes. Lawrence is liberated from anything resembling propriety or self-consciousness here... If only every actor could find the chance to to exercise such go-for-broke freedom.

[Die My Love] is full-body immersion cinema... [and] revolves around Jennifer Lawrence, for whom this feels like a career-defining role... I loved it the first time I saw it, and loved it more the second... Watching someone go for broke and actually make it is exhilarating.

[Jennifer Lawrence] is a master at simultaneously playing the truth and the performance in front of it, and this is some of her very best work in that realm... [Die My Love] is a fearsome, all-consuming spell of a film, and its effects are unshakeable.

Ramsay only toys with the scary stuff. It is just one tone among many in a wild, impressionistic drama about a woman losing her mind... [Lawrence's is] an amazing performance... [Die My Love is a] strange, unshakeable film.

Ramsay reaffirms herself as one of our foremost observers of humanity... [Die My Love] is incredibly arresting, elevated by Jennifer Lawrence in a no-holds-barred performance that sees her lose all inhibition... [The actress has] never been better.

Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche of Grace, played with mercurial brilliance by Jennifer Lawrence... An eclectic soundtrack lends the film an array of intriguing colours.

[Jennifer Lawrence] has never been better, vulnerable and terrible and totally unpredictable, matched gamely by the always compelling Robert Pattinson... Ramsay articulates the inarticulate... But Die My Love isn’t a eulogy. It’s a forest fire, destructive, angry, hotter than hell. And when it burns out, something new springs out from the ground.

With an uninhibited fieriness that’s rooted in profound need and longing, Lawrence... delivers one the finest performances of her career, energizing [Lynn Ramsay's] portrait of feminine rage, sorrow, and mania... a slow-burn vision of grief and suffering that leaves one dazed, confused, and electrified.

A wild, darkly funny, gothic-tinged drama about marriage and motherhood... [Die My Love is a] feral, full-frontal assault on the vicissitudes of parenthood... Lawrence goes all-out with a turned-up-to-eleven performance of raging, riotous defiance... [Hers is] a fearless performance.