Miss You Already
Lionsgate | Release Date: November 6, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
TheWrapInkoo KangNov 4, 2015
Unflinching yet unburdened, Miss You Already is like the best kind of hug: warm, reassuring, cathartic, and a fleeting but vital reminder that there’s at least as much good in the world as there is bad. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattNov 9, 2015
A movie about love and loss that doesn’t dissolve into soft focus when the hard parts start. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc MohanNov 6, 2015
What makes Miss You Already work (when it does work, which is most of the time) is that it shows imperfect characters dealing imperfectly with situations ranging from the maritally frustrating to the existentially overwhelming. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottNov 5, 2015
To accuse it of being manipulative is like accusing it of being in color. The genre is melodrama. The assault on the tear ducts and heartstrings is part of the contract, and the movie more than holds up its end of the bargain. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonNov 3, 2015
Toni Collette rages through Catherine Hardwicke's cancer weepie Miss You Already like a fire in a chain restaurant. The film around her is good, welcoming fare, the kind that snobs always underestimate. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesNov 4, 2015
Director Catherine Hardwicke doesn’t need that easily-cut path through long grass; she already has a willing cast and story to get to the guts-splaying. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 17, 2015
Miss You Already may be the funniest, sunniest weeper in history. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorNov 9, 2015
In a big, engrossing performance that is the film’s chief delight, the reliable Australian actress Toni Collette plays Milly. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartNov 9, 2015
A likably gushy celebration of female friendship, sometimes feels like a throwback to the Drew Barrymore of the mid-’90s: At times you wonder if she and co-star Toni Collette might actually break out into a lip-sync-with-hairbrushes routine. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundNov 6, 2015
It winningly reflects how to utilize quiet understandings and, yes, very loud laughter. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaNov 6, 2015
If a well-intentioned, occasionally funny, often moving yet nonetheless flawed "womance." Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaNov 5, 2015
Barrymore and Collette bring life and charm to a screenplay that needs all the life and charm it can get. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 5, 2015
It doesn’t help that Barrymore and Collette don’t have much chemistry for best friends forever, but Collette’s work is so compulsively watchable that Miss You Already is worth a watch for that reason alone. And precious few others. Read full review
60
Time OutAnna SmithNov 4, 2015
Ultimately Miss You Already feels like chick lit for the big screen: a frothy, contrived confection with careful doses of sexy, silly and sad. But those sad bits will get you in the end. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeySep 18, 2015
The film could have done with a richer sense of what Milly and Jess really see in each other. It’s as if Barrymore and Collette have been flung into this relationship unprepared, and must hustle to suggest there’s much of a history. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerSep 17, 2015
It’s a sad, emotive, important subject but it deserves a more detailed, heartfelt film than this. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 17, 2015
Collette is a potent, unsentimental presence and Hardwicke and Banks know how to connect with the audience. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenNov 5, 2015
The film's insistence on laughter through the tears too often feels strained. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 5, 2015
When Miss You Already works, it’s because of the cast. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonNov 4, 2015
Tonally, Miss You Already is a slapdash mess of achingly sincere moments and tasteless jokes. Read full review
50
Screen DailyCharles GantSep 17, 2015
This tender, gently funny depiction of female friendship benefits from nicely committed work from lead actresses Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore plus distinctive locations in London and Yorkshire, but suffers from unconvincing moments and struggles to convert diverse story elements into an especially compelling whole. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinSep 17, 2015
The sad truth is that, however engaging they are as performers elsewhere, neither Collette nor Barrymore are at their best here. Read full review
42
The PlaylistKenji FujishimaSep 17, 2015
Worse than offering no especially fresh angles on its cliched material, however, are the trite characterizations of the two lead female characters. Read full review
40
VarietyBen KenigsbergSep 17, 2015
Helmer Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight,” “Thirteen”) brings energy and craft to screenwriter-thesp Morwenna Banks’ maudlin, occasionally shameless script. Read full review
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