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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 14 May 2019

There’s such beautiful artisanal touches that Russo-Young adds to what could have been a standard YA-lit flick and so much that the actors…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 May 2019

Director Russo-Young, whose roots are in independent film, has brought a bit of a welcome indie sensibility to the proceedings…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 14 May 2019

Sure, Sagan’s scientific method dominates the universe…

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By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 May 2019

Although the big-screen adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s best-selling young adult novel finds welcome specificity in its world and character building,…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 May 2019

Oliver and director Ry Russo-Young (Before I Fall) cherry-pick a few of these digressions and give them an artful, collage-like treatment;…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 May 2019

The story and its trappings feel a little generic, the dialogue studiously bland and the characters and their problems curiously weightless,…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 14 May 2019

But if you’re waiting for that heartbeat-skipping moment that big screen romances have to deliver to come off, don’t bother your cardiologist…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 14 May 2019

The driving engine behind the film — a whirlwind 24-hour romance — is contrived, underwhelming and perhaps worst of all, unconvincing…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 May 2019

The leads are both charming, but they can’t override the tooth-aching sincerity of the script, or the cardboard conflicts that propel it…

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By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 May 2019

Daniel tells Natasha of his elements for falling in love, “My ingredients are friendship, chemistry, the X factor,” and he assures her…

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By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 May 2019

As talented as Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton are individually, they don’t have much chemistry…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for TheWrap (3,203) on 14 May 2019

Russo-Young (“Before I Fall”) takes some considerable risks in her direction to make The Sun Is Also a Star look different from the typical…

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