To the Bone
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): July 14, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireKate ErblandJul 14, 2017
Throughout the film, Noxon refuses to offer up easy answers and feel-good conclusions to Ellen’s journey, even when it ratchets up into a literally overheated final discovery. Read full review
80
SalonMelanie McFarlandJul 10, 2017
The film itself is an admirable and empathetic work that does not romanticize anorexia or the young woman being ground into nothingness by the disease, as some have feared. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijJan 29, 2017
Noxon, who also wrote the screenplay, manages to explore dark and complex issues while frequently leavening them with unexpected moments of humor. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJul 13, 2017
For young people suffering, the movie offers both hope and clarity; for more experienced viewers, it may come off a little too much like "Girl, Interrupted" through a Lifetime lens. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 11, 2017
One of the film’s great qualities is its casualness and willingness to be simply human and to not let sociological politics dominate. Read full review
70
Village VoiceApril WolfeJul 13, 2017
Though To the Bone isn’t quite enjoyable to watch, it’s acted well and is, in its depiction of this all-too-pervasive disorder, essential. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 13, 2017
Part character study, part PSA, the movie chronicles a brief but meaningful period in its protagonist’s healing journey, and if there are few surprises along the way, there are equally few easy answers or miraculous breakthroughs. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 29, 2017
It’s not an easy sit, nor a terribly entertaining one, but in the hands of writer-director Marti Noxon, it delivers painful insights in a relatively fresh way. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJul 14, 2017
To the Bone isn't all that interested in the actual treatment of the condition, even though the majority of the film takes place in a treatment program. The film also gets hugely distracted by a romantic sub-plot, a sub-plot that is pushy and awkward from the jump. Read full review
60
TheWrapTricia OlszewskiJul 14, 2017
Noxon, a TV veteran making her directorial debut here, had suffered from an eating disorder herself, as did the film’s star, Lily Collins. It’s surprising, then, that the script offers only generalities instead of any real insight. Read full review
58
The PlaylistGary GarrisonJul 13, 2017
For all the tepid pacing and uneven storytelling, though, Collins and co. do a great job of making To The Bone a watchable film. They are, by turns, charming and heartbreaking — even when they aren’t given much to do by the script. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJul 12, 2017
It’s snarkier and a little more self-conscious than the rest, but just as cornball. Read full review
50
The Film StageJohn FinkJan 29, 2017
With its predicable beats, one wishes this drama doubled down on the alarming effects of eating disorders. The film doesn’t make light of them, but it also doesn’t shed much new light on the process of recovery. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 13, 2017
It’s a dismal TV movie of the week: trite, shallow, cautiously middlebrow and blandly complicit in the cult of female prettiness that it is supposedly criticising. Read full review
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