{"id":630127,"date":"2024-08-08T01:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/it-ends-with-us-what-the-critics-are-saying\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T01:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:48:12","slug":"it-ends-with-us-what-the-critics-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/it-ends-with-us-what-the-critics-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018It Ends With Us\u2019: What the Critics Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Following the New York premiere of It Ends With Us<\/em> on Tuesday evening, the first reviews of the film from critics have been coming in, and they\u2019ve been decidedly mixed.<\/p>\n

\n The romantic drama, based on Colleen Hoover\u2018s 2016 best-selling novel of the same name, was directed by\u00a0Justin Baldoni\u00a0(who also plays Ryle). The film follows Lily (Blake Lively) as she overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. But after getting romantically involved with neurosurgeon Ryle, she sees sides of him that remind her of her parents\u2019 abusive relationship. And when someone from her past, Atlas (Brandon Sklenar), reenters her life, it complicates things even more and Lily must learn to rely on her own strength to move forward.<\/p>\n

\n The film has previously faced criticism for its depiction of domestic violence, with some fans claiming it romanticizes the subject. However, a common theme<\/a> among the early reviews is that while the movie adaptation manages to treat the topic of domestic violence with care, the narrative appears to suffer.<\/p>\n

\n As of Wednesday afternoon,\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em><\/em> had a score of 59 percent from 39 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and clocked in at 51 percent on Metacritic from 20 reviews.<\/p>\n

\n The film, from Sony Pictures, hits theaters on Friday. It also stars Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Isabela Ferrer and Alex Neustaedter.<\/p>\n

\n Read on for key excerpts from some of the most prominent early reviews following the premiere of It Ends With Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2018s arts and culture critic Lovia Gyarkye wrote in her review, \u201cThe pat treatment of these characters ultimately does a disservice to the broader themes embedded in\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>. Without understanding more of Lily\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The Guardian<\/em>\u2018s Benjamin Lee wrote<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s a plot of hackneyed soap tropes but there\u2019s a real maturity to how it unfolds, a story of abuse that\u2019s far less obvious than we\u2019ve grown accustomed to, the details far knottier than some might be comfortable with. There are expected cliches but there are also many that are mercifully avoided too, the story not always conforming to type.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe 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<\/em> leads with heart first, everything else later,\u201d Lee added in his review. \u201cIt\u2019s a film of huge, sometimes hugely unsubtle, emotion but it has an effectively forceful sweep to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt Ends With Us<\/em> savors the trappings of a glossy love triangle: the banter, the flirting, the turbulence, the extravagant costumes,\u201d Amy Nicholson of The Washington Post <\/a><\/em>wrote. \u201cThe movie has to cheat a bit to get at the complexity of Hoover\u2019s book. A child of domestic abuse, Hoover writes with painful intimacy about Lily\u2019s struggle to claw free from her past. Baldoni shifts some of that turmoil to the audience, with editors Oona Flaherty and Robb Sullivan cutting key scenes so that, like Lily, we don\u2019t know what to believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Nicholson added that \u201ceven bouncing off male leads who are more pinball bumpers than dimensional characters,\u201d Lively gave a \u201cgreat performance as a headstrong, sensible woman who struggles to consider herself a victim.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Critic Mark Kennedy wrote in his review for the Associated Press<\/em><\/a> that \u201cthe uneven movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover\u2019s best-selling 2016 novel\u201d tries to \u201cbalance the realities of domestic violence inside a rom-com and a female-empowerment movie. All suffer in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt veers too close to melodrama, with suicide, homelessness, generational trauma, child murder, unintended pregnancy and never-forgotten love all touched on and only half digested,\u201d Kennedy continued. \u201cSet in Boston, it never even pulls from that city\u2019s flavor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Time<\/em> film critic Stephanie Zacharek wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe movie is accurate and effective in this sense: for so many abused women, you never know how bad it can get, until it gets\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0bad. Yet none of that is enough to make you fully buy what the movie\u2019s selling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe problem, maybe, is that\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>\u00a0is all about what it\u2019s about, and nothing more,\u201d she added. \u201cThese characters exist to make points about the insidiousness of domestic violence, the way its effects can creep up invisibly even as those who are suffering cloak themselves in protective denial. Admittedly, that\u2019s a lot for a movie to carry. But movies<\/a> can\u2019t just be efficient feeling-delivery systems; they have to work on us in subtler ways.\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>\u00a0makes all its points, all right, but in a way that\u2019s more edifying than moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Proma Khosla wrote for IndieWire<\/em><\/a> that the film \u201cmanages to sensitively handle its delicate subject matter, though largely at the cost of a more intricate narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt Ends with Us<\/em> does what it wants to (and what made Hoover\u2019s book such a smash hit), highlighting the patterns of abuse, trauma, and silence at play in this specific story,\u201d Khosla added in her review. \u201cBaldoni and Hall handle Lily and everyone around her with empathy, downplaying unpleasantness or oversimplifying story elements ultimately to mitigate risk and protect viewers \u2014 with the opportunity to dig deeper in a potential sequel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Esther Zuckerman wrote in her review for Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe movie is as frothy as it is melodramatic; as much concerned with romance as it is with trauma. Throughout its over-two-hour run time,\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>\u00a0stays incredibly loyal to its beach-read, airport-paperback origins. The result is a mix of tones that doesn\u2019t always work, but often feels like a throwback to a different era of movie-making, one where the mid-budget movie willing to delve into issues was a viable business model. (Think:\u00a0White Oleander<\/em>,\u00a0Where the Heart Is<\/em>.) In that way, it\u2019s a successful endeavor, even if it at times may have some schmaltz-allergic audience members rolling their eyes at the emotional roller coaster of the plot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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