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By Arantxa Luna (8) for Cine Premiere (538) on 25 Dec 2018

The complex framework of the approach in the film (which resorts to the well-known strategy of looking at a story through different points…

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By Sebastian Zavala Kahn (303) for Me gusta el cine (52) on 21 Dec 2018

I must admit that it generated an emotional reaction in me, which made me appreciate its honesty and ambition. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Shannon Miller (16) for Nerds of Prey (9) on 09 Dec 2018

There is a moment where the narrator ... says 'I'm not sure whose story I have been telling,' and that's one of the few truths that Life Itself tells…

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By Marcelo Stiletano (8) for La Nación (Argentina) (226) on 07 Dec 2018

The emotional manipulation is mixed with a puerile psychology and sweetened by force from photography and music. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Gaspar Zimerman (111) for Clarín (492) on 06 Dec 2018

Through its five stories, this choral film tries to convey a profound existential message at all times. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Néstor Burtone (37) for Otroscines.com (322) on 05 Dec 2018

A movie whose universe has rules lax enough to allow almost anything to happen. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 05 Dec 2018

The all-too-tidy web by which Fogelman's ensemble of characters interconnect plays as hackneyed and contrived…

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By Rolando Gallego (41) for EscribiendoCine (248) on 04 Dec 2018

Life Itself is proposed as an accomplished melodramatic exercise, powerful, honest, with some very lucid dialogues, about links and their derivatives…

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By Bernard Boo (61) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Nov 2018

Life itself captures all of this in the worst way possible, offering no respite. It's sad to see a terrific cast so woefully underserved…

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By Masego Panyane (16) for Independent Online (South Africa) (258) on 09 Nov 2018

Life Itself celebrates the human condition and all of its complications with humuor, poignancy and love…

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By Matt Ward (84) for Cinematic Considerations (84) on 31 Oct 2018

About 15 minutes of Life Itself is truly special, unique and beautiful cinema…

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By Alistair Ryder (351) for The Digital Fix (54) on 29 Oct 2018

Fogelman spans entire generations to tell this single story, offering simplistic platitudes about the human condition which he believes to…

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By Michael A. Smith (689) for MediaMikes (371) on 23 Oct 2018

If only all movies could begin like Life Itself. A single camera shot but one that is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson in all his glory…

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By Lewis Knight (28) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 16 Oct 2018

Fogelman flips between... more cinematic elements and the soapy dynastic drama he is good at, which detracts from the positives considerably…

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By Nate Adams (71) for The Only Critic (71) on 09 Oct 2018

This movie is so awful, I almost want to cancel my Amazon subscription out of principle…

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By Matthew Passantino (89) for Big Picture Big Sound (482) on 08 Oct 2018

Life Itself is one of those movies that thinks it's saying something much more philosophical than it actually is at any point…

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By Pamela Powell (127) for Reel Honest Reviews (8) on 07 Oct 2018

The film actually feels much better suited to a television series which would have allowed it time to delve more deeply into the subsequent…

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By Roxana Hadadi (336) for Pajiba (523) on 04 Oct 2018

The attempt by Life Itself to pretend it's anything other than another piece of Nice men have feelings too, love us for being so nice…

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By David Fontana (92) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 02 Oct 2018

Fogelman's film has heart, but it's ultimately too shallow in execution to support his grander ambitions…

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By Anne Brodie (132) for What She Said (131) on 01 Oct 2018

A multi-generational, international Ancestry: the Movie type of thing…

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