“Die My Love” follows a mother whose increasingly agitated and erratic behavior leaves her companion worried and helpless.

“Die My Love” tests the audience – in more ways than one. It’s an endurance exercise. It’s wildly uncomfortable. And… it never lets up. At the same time, the film seemingly has everything necessary to succeed: a talented cast, a superb filmmaker and a meaningful script.

It’s too bad “Die My Love” is a bad movie.

Performances and Characterization

Star power can only take you so far. “Die My Love” features two phenomenal actors in Jennifer Lawrence (Grace) and Robert Pattinson (Jackson). Not only that, but the film also includes LaKeith Stanfield (Karl).

Lawrence delivers one of her best performances to date, putting a rollercoaster ride of emotions onscreen. She’s infatuating and unhinged, often at the same time. Pattinson plays a more subtle counterpart, showcasing layers of disappointment and judgment through his expressions. Whether embracing or arguing, Lawrence and Pattinson bounce off each other to near perfection.

The problem – their characters are some of the most unlikable of 2025. The routes in which “Die My Love” goes are bold… almost too much so. More often than not, they don’t feel like real people. And even when they do, their actions make them nearly impossible to root for in any capacity.

This burdens the film, diminishing any emotional investment it hopes to achieve.

Themes and Technical Craft

While “Die My Love” isn’t an enjoyable movie-watching experience, it does get its message across. Analyzing postpartum depression, the movie serves as a heightened look at motherhood and all that it brings.

This is done through immersive cinematography, effective sound design and a surprisingly useful Academy (1.33:1) aspect ratio. Over and over again, “Die My Love” feels claustrophobic. As everything closes in around Grace, the technical aspects work to make the audience feel the same effect.

Much like Grace herself, the film is extremely scatterbrained. Jumping from scene to scene with little to no explanation in between, “Die My Love” often feels incoherent. This puts the audience inside Grace’s experience as she loses her sense of identity.

While on reflection the point comes across clearly, the same can’t necessarily be said during the experience. With each passing minute, “Die My Love” comes off as pretentious more than anything else. When a movie is flat-out unenjoyable, its meaningfulness gets lost in between.

Repetition and Resolution

Despite this, there is beauty hidden within “Die My Love.” It sneaks in moments of hope amidst the chaos, giving the audience a glimmer of light. This hope radiates until the end, before the movie begins to beat you over the head with it.

“Die My Love” ultimately becomes overly repetitive. As similar events continue to repeat themselves, the movie spirals out of control. With no end in sight, it goes out with a whimper rather than a bang. In a film that asks for so much patience from the audience, it never culminates into something memorable.

Technically sound but emotionally distant – that’s the story of “Die My Love.” The film effectively explores postpartum depression, but chooses the worst characters to do so. In causing discomfort it succeeds, but in being even somewhat enjoyable… not so much.

Rating: 2 out of 5