The Lovely Bones Reviews

Movie Reviews

• We leave the cinema, not heart-broken. Just glad it's over

  by Baz Bamigboye [Daily Mail ]

• threatens to outdo the popularity of its source material

  by Sara Schieron [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• the performances of Ronan, Tucci, and some others make The Lovely Bones a film worth seein

  by Chris Barsanti [Filmcritic.com ]

• rates as a significant artistic disappointment

  by Todd McCarthy [Variety ]

• poignant, gripping, emotionally alive (but never sentimental) and gorgeous

  by Ian Freer [Empire Magazine ]

• more hit-and-miss than unblemished triumph

  by Kenneth Turan [LA Times ]

• a simpler, more button-pushing tale that misses the joy and heartbreak of the original

  by Kirk Honeycutt [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale

  Review rate : C+ by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• a cinematic version of the old parlor game in which disparate graphic elements are assembled into a single strange picture

  by A.O. Scott [NY Times ]

• a blushing mainstream entertainment

  by Xan Brooks [The Guardian ]
• Review rate : C Reviewed by Tasha Robinson [Onion AV Club ]
• Reviewed by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
• Reviewed by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]
• Reviewed by Wendy Ide [Times Online ]
• Reviewed by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
• Reviewed by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]

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