While a lot of modern action movies highlight brutality, Jonathan Eusebio’s Love Hurts is a surprise in that it contains a particular level of charm and sweetness. Leaning heavily into its title and Valentine’s Day setting,

The Oscar-winning actor stars alongside fellow honoree Ariana DeBose in director Jonathan Eusebio’s awkward action-comedy about a former assassin, who is pulled out of his normal new life as a real-estate agent and back into a world of bloodshed.

Love Hurts” runs a mere 83 minutes, but that word “mere” can be so misleading! The minutes fly like months. Or a triple bill of “The Brutalist,” the Kenneth Branagh “Hamlet” and the seven-hour 1968 film version of “War and Peace.