It Ends With Us

The movie wants to be a form of comfort food, assuring us that everything would be all right if only women embraced their traditional roles as nurturers, mothers, and healers, but it all just tastes stale.

This smart and sensitive movie version will more than satisfy the millions who’ve picked it up and found a bible of sorts for abuse survivors.

Those looking for a genre-redefining cinematic masterpiece or expecting a line-by-line remake will leave the theater disappointed. But those searching for a good enough drama with a few standout performances will get their money’s worth...

I didn't see anything in this film that was of tremendous interest or hadn't been done before and better.

Incredibly, Lively makes it all work. Beyond nailing Lily’s exact shade of auburn hair... she also conveys her luminousness and strength, and reminds you how pleasurable it can be to watch a romantic thriller.

It’s not often a motion picture makes me physically ill.

Whatever your issues with the source material, Hoover at least tried to dig into the generational cycle of abuse. Baldoni wants to couch all that in rom-com trappings, diluting the impact and ending up with something more mawkish than moving.

…the violence done by men to women is such an omnipresent element of today’s daily news cycle that it usually goes uncommented on&#59; IEWU puts these elements front and centre, and that fresh, fearless content seems to be what audiences want to see in droves

Rich in character and incident, but tonal inconsistencies and some narrative fudging blunt its overall impact.

The film appears well-intentioned, but it’s inability to keep its focus on Lily, to center her journey absent the will-they-won’t-they rom-com elements, and to present the film with a coding of danger, makes the experience a vapid one ... .