Love of Your Life

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Love of Your Life

R

Oct 2026

1h 46m

Romance

Drama

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Directed by Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), LOVE OF YOUR LIFE follows Maya (Margaret Qualley), whose chance encounter with Charlie (Gabriel Basso) sets in motion a sweeping romance and a future beyond anything she had imagined. When that future is suddenly upended, Maya is sent hurtling toward an unexpected new life--one that will force her to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and how to love again.

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A winsome travelogue enlivened by Margaret Qualley's terrific performance, Love of Your Life is an attractive drama that finds the grace notes in heartbreak.

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Wenlei Ma

The Nightly (AU)

Oct 19, 2026

3.5/5

Love of Your Life is a tender and emotionally mature portrait of love, loss, grief and forgiveness.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Oct 15, 2026

3/4

This film succeeds because of Qualley’s mercurial and tone-rich performance, the gorgeous cinematography from Todd Banhazl and a nuanced protagonist confronting both exterior and interior hardships.

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

Oct 15, 2026

Manipulation is a given in this brand of weepie, as essential to the formula as martyrdom. If love means never having to say you’re sorry, I won’t apologize for blubbering through this movie.

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Andrew Parker

The Gate

1 day ago

8/10

While it conforms to a lot of cliches and tropes found in films centred around love, loss, grief, and self-discovery, Love of Your Life also finds ways to reign in and subvert a lot of the genre’s most hackneyed impulses.

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Maxance Vincent

Nexus Point News

2 days ago

3.5/5

Rachel Morrison’s Love of Your Life might be the first Hollywood movie to meaningfully reckon with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Matt Pais

MattPais.com

Nov 4, 2026

B

Films with texture understand things that others don’t, and "Love of Your Life" has the conviction and sincerity to linger.

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Irene R

@RT46989372 1 day ago

I went in completely blind, having neither read the movie reviews nor the synopsis. I wasn't prepared for how much it would affect me. I was in tears by the end. A beautiful and heartbreaking story about love, loss, and the memories that stay with us.

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Victor S

@RT65124895 1 day ago

This grounded meditation on grief and love, feelings that change over time - incredibly well written dialogue and actions that feel character driven. I usually don't review movies but the themes and metaphors in this felt very relatable and well executed. If you've ever lost a partner in a traumatic way or just want a well written romantic drama to feel your feels, this movie is for you.

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Wayne M

@Wayne93 2 days ago

Love of Your Life is a tender, mature and earnest portrayal of grief and coming to terms with it. Of finding love, losing it and then trying to find it again. It's a straight drama that manages quite well to be emotionally resonant. We follow Maya over several years of her life. Firstly at age 26 in Boston where she works as a nurse. She meets Charlie and they fall hard for each other. Soon they are married and everything seems fine. But without spoiling the film, things don't work out as they should. We then follow Maya in her life as she tries to find happiness. She moves to Portugal and then eventually to London. It's a journey of sadness and also relief. It's beautifully captured and examines grief and love quite well. Performances are very good, especially Margaret Qually as Maya and Aaron Pieree as Felix. A quality film that should have widespread appeal.

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stewart M

@estew 3 days ago

There were times during this movie that I thought I would hate it, but in the end it won me over 100%. Ultimately it is an exploration of love, loss and grief and it captures them all beautifully with its characters and dialog as well as its cinematography and music. A talented cast that nails it and includes Catherine Keener who is always a treat to see

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Eleanore S

@E.sterling 3 days ago

An incredible portrayal of grief, however imperfect and uncomfortable.

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T G

@getteg 3 days ago

The film really captures the experience of enduring tremendous loss, grief, guilt, shame. I found it cathartic, sensitive, insightful.

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Maya

Aaron Pierre

Felix

Patrick Schwarzenegger

Jason

Gabriel Basso

Charlie

Catherine Keener

Ruth

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Directed by Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), LOVE OF YOUR LIFE follows Maya (Margaret Qualley), whose chance encounter with Charlie (Gabriel Basso) sets in motion a sweeping romance and a future beyond anything she had imagined. When that future is suddenly upended, Maya is sent hurtling toward an unexpected new life--one that will force her to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and how to love again.

Director: Rachel Morrison
Producer: Ryan Gosling, Jessie Henderson
Screenwriter: Julia Cox
Distributor: Amazon MGM Studios
Production Co: Open Invite Films
Rating: R (Brief Nudity|Some Sexuality)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 14, 2026
Runtime: 1h 46m

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