Review of Collateral Beauty (2016) by Ben K — 31 Dec 2016

This movie was so heavy, but wonderfully done. Excellent acting.

This review of Collateral Beauty (2016) was written by Ben K on 31 Dec 2016.

Collateral Beauty has generally received mixed reviews.

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Grief is such a powerful plot point, but you always have to make sure to go about delivering the message in the right way…

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By Doc31794 (1) on 07 Feb 2018

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By Gomi A (385) on 07 Jul 2018

It's a bad film but it's very generic. It has everything yet it comes up bit boring…

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By Chris B (2,902) on 08 Jul 2018

The writer was just plain lazy and failed to show the depth of all characters and complexity of the whole story of grief…

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By Greg S (1,081) on 28 Nov 2018

3 stars. After a slow, stodgy beginning, this movie developed a rather interesting plot, and I was hooked…

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By Jordan Calhoun (35) for Black Nerd Problems (146) on 21 Jul 2018

Collateral Beauty seemingly aspires to be blatant grief voyeurism, the kind to which, if a film is lucky, finds a cult following from teenagers…

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By Jeremy Jahns (155) for JeremyJahns.com (155) on 25 Jan 2018

I don't know if the movie is worth saying hey yeah total I gotta go out and watch this one…

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By Max N (202) on 15 Jan 2019

This movie is really terrible. The previews lied about what this movie was about. Everyone's acting in it was really good…

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By Michael A (1,637) on 18 Jan 2018

Don't listen to the cirnics, check this out…

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By Miles M (43) on 19 Mar 2018

I truly don't understand why all the negative reviews for this film. I shied away from watching it for years because of them…

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