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By Yip Wai Yee (59) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 01 Mar 2017

There is a clear moral lesson to be learnt here, yet the movie is not at all preachy…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 01 Mar 2017

Director Ry Russo-Young and screenwriter Maria Maggenti are far more interested in surface appearances than substance…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 01 Mar 2017

Before I Fall has more moods than one, and it never feels like a dirge about young adults who don't realize the world won't end because they're sad…

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By Bennett Campbell Ferguson (43) for Willamette Week (516) on 01 Mar 2017

A mean girl learns to play nice in this slick, soulless riff on Groundhog Day that isn't half as heartfelt as it pretends to be…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Mar 2017

Emo Groundhog Day, strictly recommended for the more morose millennial set…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 28 Feb 2017

The film mostly retains its humanity, largely thanks to Deutch’s performance and Russo-Young’s insistence on keeping her at the forefront…

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By April Wolfe (199) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 28 Feb 2017

Russo-Young gives this teen parable the thriller treatment to ward off any cheese, and watching Deutch learn her lesson with that expressive…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Indiewire (3,631) on 27 Feb 2017

Russo-Young insists upon Before I Fall maintaining the courage of its convictions, and she gets her way — the movie takes a while to get…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 27 Feb 2017

It’s not a great movie, a deep film or a transcendent experience, the way “Groundhog Day” is…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Feb 2017

All the film has to show for its efforts are tired platitudes about the value of altruism and living each day as it if were the last…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 13 Feb 2017

It's what would happen if Nicholas Sparks rewrote Groundhog Day as a teen-angst melodrama…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 30 Jan 2017

It's almost as if this were the result of one of those asinine pitch meetings at the beginning of 'The Player': Okay, it's 'Groundhog Day…

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By Neil Miller (106) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 26 Jan 2017

The moody, thoughtful young adult adaptation that should catapult its star Zoey Deutch forward in a big way…

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By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 Jan 2017

The beats are familiar, recalling many a teen movie past, but the themes resonate for today’s youth and they resonate clearly…

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By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 25 Jan 2017

The primary problem with Before I Fall, however, is that these characters are truly reprehensible…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 Jan 2017

Before I Fall doesn't entirely transcend its genre limitations, but the film's clear highlight is relative newcomer Zoey Deutch, who continues…

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By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 23 Jan 2017

Deutch, who appeared in Beautiful Creatures as well as Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some, delivers a sympathetic lead performance,…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Jan 2017

While the story easily could have fallen into a broken-record rut, “Nobody Walks” director Russo-Young finds ways of making the day in…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Jan 2017

Before I Fall is a movie that will make its core audience of teenage girls melt and is a nice diversion for everyone else…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 23 Jan 2017

This neatly written Heathers-meets-Groundhog Day high-concept package delivers both technical polish and a toothsome yet likeable cast…

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