Five Feet Apart
Lionsgate | Release Date: March 15, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
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Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
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11
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14
Negative:
2
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60
EmpireBeth WebbMar 22, 2019
Sprouse and Richardson are proven heavyweights in the young-adult pocket of Hollywood, but this soft-hearted teen romance spreads on sugary sentiment too thickly to leave a lasting message. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 14, 2019
Richardson, previously wonderful with good material (“Columbus,” “Support the Girls”), here cements her genius status by finding depths beyond the contrived screenplay. Read full review
60
VarietyAndrew BarkerMar 14, 2019
Fresh off of memorable supporting parts in “The Edge of Seventeen” and “Support the Girls,” Richardson gives a star turn every bit as charismatic and assured as the film is formulaic and forgettable, bringing soul, style and nuance to a character that could have easily been a condescending caricature. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeMar 14, 2019
Unfortunately, welcome insight into the physical and emotional experience of living with cystic fibrosis eventually gives way to increasingly improbable romantic and dramatic scenarios...By its third act, the film almost starts to feel like a parody of the most maudlin conventions of the “sick teen romance” genre. Read full review
50
CNNBrian LowryMay 21, 2019
Richardson, in particular, shines in the role. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisMar 19, 2019
Perhaps the fault lies not in our stars, but in our shameless need for a sappy ending. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 15, 2019
Full disclosure: I am so not the target demographic for Five Feet Apart, a mushy, three-hankie weeper that is aimed squarely between the eyes of every 15-year-old girl. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 14, 2019
But Haley Lu Richardson’s in it. She’s excellent. In fact, she’s reliably excellent. In “Five Feet Apart” she goes 10 rounds with dreckdom, and wins. Scene after scene the movie becomes a two-hour demonstration in the art, craft and mystery of what a performer can do to make you believe, in spite of the things they actually have to say. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 14, 2019
At 116 minutes, Five Feet Apart is too much of a just-OK thing. All the same, I want to see Haley Lu Richardson’s next movie. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 14, 2019
It’s a weird little genre, the sick-teen romance. “Five Feet Apart” winds up as just a pedestrian entry in it, because it tries way too hard on the melodrama front. Being a teenager is difficult enough. Being a sick teenager is presumably that much harder. Being a teenager in “Five Feet Apart” means suffering from something else, in addition: overkill. And that’s deadly. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonMar 14, 2019
In the film, hardly any fact about cystic fibrosis is raised without being doubly, even triply, underlined for viewers. Read full review
40
Time OutCath ClarkeMar 15, 2019
Five Feet Apart, with its phoney emotions and baloney contrivances — these love-struck kids can’t even hold hands let alone get to first base because two people with cystic fibrosis aren’t allowed to touch — just didn’t do the job for me. Read full review
40
TheWrapCarlos AguilarMar 14, 2019
Cutting through the thick curtain of recycled lovey-dovey remarks and the proficiently dull craftsmanship of the production, Richardson’s radiant charisma acts as a lifeline. One would be hard-pressed to find a moment where she is not earnestly committed to the role’s convincingly bittersweet shtick. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesMar 14, 2019
The film becomes more exhausting than tense. In the end, all that manipulation backfires. Unlike the best of its genre, the rote Five Feet Apart isn’t wrenching enough to jerk a single tear. Read full review
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