An Unfinished Life Reviews

Movie Reviews

• well-crafted drama

  by Edward Douglas [Comingsoon ]

• There isn't a weak performance to be found.

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• never realizes its dramatic potential

  by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter ]

• marches its characters toward expulsive redemption with a predictability that's almost impressive.

  by Mark Holcomb [Village Voice ]

• is unable to bring anything new

  by Mark Plante [The Cinema Source ]

• has some of the same quality director Lasse Hallstr?m brought to his other films

  by Chris Hewitt [The Arizona Republic ]

• Hallstrom misses the mark with his casting

  by Brian Marder [Hollywood ]

• flawed but nonetheless worthwhile

  by James Verniere [Boston Herald ]

• dramatically and emotionally involving

  by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press ]

• Another sleepy, sweeping soft-serve melodrama from director Lasse Hallstrom

  by Rob Blackwelder [SPLICEDwire ]

• a slow, laden picture

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

• a middlebrow mush of platitudes rather than an okay corral of distinct characters with heartbeats

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
• Reviewed by [E! Online ]
• Reviewed by Calvin Wilson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
• Reviewed by William Arnold [Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]
• Reviewed by Philip Wuntch [The Dallas Morning News ]
• Reviewed by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News ]
• Reviewed by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ]
• Reviewed by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]
• Reviewed by Bob Strauss [Houston Chronicle ]
• Reviewed by Peter Keough [The Boston Phoenix ]
• Reviewed by Tim Knight [Reel ]
• Reviewed by Stan Urankar [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland ]
• Reviewed by Daniel Fienberg [Zap2it ]
• Reviewed by The Wolf [Iofilm ]
• Reviewed by Jan Stuart [Newsday ]
• Reviewed by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Peter Sobczynski [EFilmCritic ]

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