A Beautiful Life
Release Date: October 2, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
13
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
1
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
Time OutAndrew Grant
Clichéd and formulaic. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
The bad news is that the characters and situations are platitudes and the story is so heavy-handed that the film is hard to sit through. Read full review
25
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Makes little attempt to be credible or original. And the acting is poor. Read full review
20
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Misery pile-up. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesGary Goldstein
The whole thing plays like a bad Equity-waiver one-act. Read full review
10
VarietyAndrew Barker
A waste of a talented, earnest cast, this borderline offensive indie, set for an Oct. 2 limited release, shouldn't take up too much valuable theater space before fading away. Read full review
10
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
This laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders. Read full review
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