Yahoo Movies Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us lands soft Rotten Tomatoes rating
Blake Lively's new movie It Ends With Us has landed a soft rating on Rotten Tomatoes after receiving mixed reviews.
The new film is based on the 2016 book by Colleen Hoover, and focuses on the star's character Lily as she reconnects with a past love while in the middle of an abusive relationship.
Since reviews emerged, the movie has attracted a modest rating of 57% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics largely divided.
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While some have praised elements of It Ends With Us such as its emotion, others have suggested it is more style over substance.
Here's what critics have been saying:
Digital Spy
"It Ends With Us might have inherited some unescapable aspects of its source material, but some smart changes and a luminous Blake Lively make up for part of it."
The Guardian
"The life lessons being taught here about self-acceptance, self-love and self-worth might be a little pat and some of the darker elements could have afforded a tad more darkness, but It Ends with Us leads with heart first, everything else later. It’s a film of huge, sometimes hugely unsubtle, emotion but it has an effectively forceful sweep to it."
Screen International
"This is a film that leans into its cliches – long, loving nights transform into windswept mornings, ardent dialogue teases obsession – and smartly uses them to enact triggering lessons about generational trauma."
The Independent
"It Ends with Us is capable of poignancy. Yet it’s also entirely ill equipped to square such sensitive material up against scenes of diamanté boots being sensually rolled down."
The Daily Telegraph
"Baldoni’s film looks like something Netflix might have paid for: there’s far more attention paid to the aspirational furnishings than to anything the camera is doing."
Little White Lies
"A visual headache, overcrowding every frame with colour, texture and patterns, rather than building to some carefully orchestrated tension."
It Ends With Us is out now in cinemas.
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