It Ends with Us
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: August 9, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
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60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeAug 22, 2024
For a film that dips its Manolo-clad toe into the murky waters of domestic abuse, it’s unexpectedly aspirational, almost frothy in tone. But perhaps that’s the point the film is labouring: spousal violence in a relationship is rarely broadcast to the wider world. Read full review
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ABC NewsPeter TraversAug 9, 2024
Fighting their way out of the flowery tearjerking in the film version of Colleen Hoover’s mega-bestseller are a timely movie and a stellar Blake Lively performance that both take measure of domestic violence and the women who get to decide when enough is enough. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 8, 2024
Adapted from Colleen Hoover’s best seller by Christy Hall, “It Ends With Us” is fitfully diverting, at times touching, often ridiculous and, at 2 hours and 10 minutes, almost offensively long. Read full review
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The New YorkerRichard BrodyAug 8, 2024
It’s as if a filmmaker’s quest for dramatic universality has deprived his characters of their particulars, has pulled them out of time and space and rendered them all too abstract. What remains is a mechanism of thrilling power that’s missing a touch of mere humanity. Read full review
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EmpireJohn NugentAug 8, 2024
This is not a perfect film, but it handles the important stuff — abuse, trauma and recovery — unexpectedly well. If its reception is anything like the book’s, it will be a powerful vessel for people with similar stories of their own. Read full review
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Time OutPhil de SemlyenAug 8, 2024
After the nuance of what comes before, it’s annoying that the knottiness vanishes in an ending that wraps everything up in a neat bow. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeAug 7, 2024
The life lessons being taught here about self-acceptance, self-love and self-worth might be a little pat and some of the darker elements could have afforded a tad more darkness, but It Ends with Us leads with heart first, everything else later. It’s a film of huge, sometimes hugely unsubtle, emotion but it has an effectively forceful sweep to it. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyAug 7, 2024
Loyal fans will be pleased. Untold millions of BookTok users can’t be wrong, surely. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneEsther ZuckermanAug 7, 2024
It’s slick and eager to elide the moral messiness of the material with its lightly empowering messaging, but also competently executed with a starry performance at its center. That recipe almost makes you nostalgic for what it’s selling: The old-school, middle-of-the-road tearjerker, the Starbucks latte of movies. It’s not going to blow your mind, it might taste a little burnt at times, but occasionally it does the trick. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithAug 7, 2024
A serious subject is sensitively handled in a drama that’s otherwise just tear-jerking soap opera. Read full review
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IndieWireProma KhoslaAug 7, 2024
And while some viewers may brace while watching (or avoid altogether), the overwhelming feeling of watching this adaptation in a packed theater was solidarity and catharsis. As dark as the dirt is in this story, “It Ends with Us” is a film focused on what can grow out of it. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 9, 2024
In the film, Lily is delusional about her relationship and the movie blurs the lines of the abuse for too long to a frustrating degree that essentially robs our hero of her agency, and elides some of Ryle’s obvious manipulation. Read full review
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Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonAug 8, 2024
For a story centered on childhood trauma, domestic violence, and the cycle of abuse, these themes feel like afterthoughts when they could have been its strength. It’s certainly lacking, but hearts were in the right place. Read full review
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TimeStephanie ZacharekAug 7, 2024
Movies can’t just be efficient feeling-delivery systems; they have to work on us in subtler ways. It Ends With Us makes all its points, all right, but in a way that’s more edifying than moving. And despite the prettiness of its Boston setting, it isn’t as visually alluring as it should be. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeAug 7, 2024
Without understanding more of Lily’s broader community or getting a stronger sense of how she navigates the relationship with Ryle, the film can feel too light and wispy to support the weight of its themes. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubBrianna ZiglerAug 20, 2024
There are worse and more mind-numbing portrayals of domestic abuse out there, but is it helpful to offer up a pipe dream, double-acting as a trauma fantasy for eager voyeurs? Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Roxana HadadiAug 9, 2024
The movie wants to be a form of comfort food, assuring us that everything would be all right if only women embraced their traditional roles as nurturers, mothers, and healers, but it all just tastes stale. Read full review
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The Daily BeastNick SchagerAug 8, 2024
Devoid of plausible characterizations, decision-making, and plotting, it’s a dud of epic proportions—literally, as its 130-minute runtime makes it feel like it’ll never end. Read full review
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The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 7, 2024
Based on the Colleen Hoover bestseller, this vacuous film splices abuse and glossy courtship in the big city – to deeply dubious effect. Read full review
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Little White LiesAnna McKibbinAug 7, 2024
The result is a visual headache, overcrowding every frame with colour, texture and patterns, rather than building to some carefully orchestrated tension. Read full review
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Arizona RepublicMeredith G. WhiteAug 7, 2024
While Baldoni had a surplus of material and talent to work with, "It Ends with Us" felt flat and uninspiring. Read full review
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SlashfilmBJ ColangeloAug 7, 2024
As a movie, It Ends With Us is an infuriating, emotionally manipulative watch and a disservice to the talents of every actor involved. Read full review
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The IndependentClarisse LoughreyAug 7, 2024
It Ends with Us is capable of poignancy. Yet it’s also entirely ill-equipped to square such sensitive material up against scenes of diamanté boots being sensually rolled down, an out-of place but very funny Jenny Slate rocking up in a string of Carrie Bradshaw-worthy outfits, or Lively simply revelling in that deep, half-laughing voice that made her an icon of casual cool on TV’s Gossip Girl. This film’s good intentions feel misplaced. Read full review
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