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How I Live Now (2013) - Critic Reviews - Page 4 of 5

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Nov 2013

How I Live Now goes to that nuclear nightmare, and Ronan, who can’t hide her smarts even when the role isn’t as good as the one she had…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Nov 2013

Tender, humane, and searing, How I Live Now stands as something all too rare: a movie about young people that young people may love — but…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Nov 2013

There are a few effectively disquieting sequences early on, but the film never recovers from director Kevin Macdonald's indifferent staging…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 03 Nov 2013

The film stumbles into a cross-country odyssey that dominates its last third…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 23 Oct 2013

Isn't a mess, but it's indirect, irritatingly so, wasting a tempting premise on half-baked emotions and aimless moments of distress that should…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 08 Oct 2013

Saoirse Ronan makes the story work…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 05 Oct 2013

An uncertain affair, powerfully played and sporadically affecting, but lacking the singular clarity of vision that becomes Daisy's survivalist mantra…

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By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 03 Oct 2013

How scary this film is will depend on your age, cinematic experience and self-confidence of the precarious world we live in…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 03 Oct 2013

Based on the prizewinning novel by Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now is impeccably crafted with some beautiful cinematography from Franz Lustig and…

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By Rosie Fletcher (98) for SFX Magazine (298) on 03 Oct 2013

Packed with integrity but not likely cash cow franchise potential, How I Live Now is a refreshing miss-hit more interested in challenging than…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 03 Oct 2013

A singularly odd, consistently bewitching piece of work…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 02 Oct 2013

Remarkably bleak for a teen movie, this drama keeps us gripped as it throws its characters into an odyssey that's seriously harrowing…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 02 Oct 2013

Meg Rosoff's young adult novel about a teenager struggling to survive in the aftermath of nuclear war was a big hit with readers, but here…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 02 Oct 2013

I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic anxiety, a bit like Survivors on 70s TV: a world of farmhouses, Land Rovers and underground bunkers…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 02 Oct 2013

The harsh beauty of the English countryside shines through in Kevin Macdonald's harrowing teen survival yarn…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 02 Oct 2013

Watchable teen survival drama enlivened by a strong central performance from Saoirse Ronan and a handful of chilling visuals, but the central…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 02 Oct 2013

All England is here: a blend ... of dark with light, of the eternal-pastoral with tense and tactile forebodings of an unwritten future…

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By Emma Morgan (12) for Total Film (3,532) on 02 Oct 2013

An Arab Spring-y allegory with kissing cousins and a divine countryside setting, Kevin Macdonald’s fourth narrative film is an awkward oddity,…

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By Rob Carnevale (227) for The List (2,018) on 30 Sep 2013

Macdonald's film may operate within the same genre as past releases like Tomorrow, When The War Began and Red Dawn but it's more intelligent…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out (7,510) on 30 Sep 2013

Kevin Macdonald’s slightly drab adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s popular teen novel would be nothing without Saoirse Ronan…

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