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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 10 Sep 2018

Life Itself thinks you’re stupid. Or, if not stupid, unable to understand how a movie should work…

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By Gwilym Mumford (24) for The Guardian (2,969) on 10 Sep 2018

You rarely get the sense of Fogelman’s characters being complex figures with internal lives – instead they’re merely there to smile weakly…

Review of Life Itself (2018)

By Rendy Jones (321) for Rendy Reviews (320) on 09 Sep 2018

It's as if Fogelman took the entire trash bin of rejected ideas from his This is Us writer's room and used those unwanted ideas as the basis…

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By Angie Han (120) for Mashable (91) on 09 Sep 2018

As evidenced by the title, Life Itself has grand ambitions... What it actually delivers, though, is a big sloppy pile of WTF…

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By Esther Zuckerman (46) for Thrillist (209) on 09 Sep 2018

The movie wants so desperately to be clever, and just comes off looking lame…

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By Jamie Broadnax (55) for Black Girl Nerds (256) on 08 Sep 2018

You may want to keep some tissues on hand while watching Life Itself. The tears will flow and there's no way to stop them…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Sep 2018

Fogelman clearly gets a thrill in constructing a tapestry full of one random tragedy after another (seriously, almost nothing good seems to…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Screen International (2,241) on 08 Sep 2018

Some of the wit and emotion strikes home and the longer we spend with individual characters the more their story resonates…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Sep 2018

It is sentimental and sprawling, which are not necessarily bad things, but also manipulative and contrived, which very much are…

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