A Million Little Pieces
critic Reviews
, 27% Rotten Tomatometer Score- While solidly cast and competently helmed, A Million Little Pieces amounts to little more than a well-intentioned but unpersuasive echo of a deeply problematic memoir.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRoxana HadadiPajiba
The Taylor-Johnsons have made a well-meaning version of a story about addiction, but given what we know about James Frey, A Million Little Pieces doesn't feel like enough.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRichard RoeperChicago Sun-Times
As a stand-alone work of cinema fiction, "A Million Little Pieces" is an effective blunt instrument of a film - a rough-edged, unvarnished, painfully accurate portrayal of addiction and rehabilitation.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.com
A petulant, boastful, and not very noteworthy variation of a story that plenty of films, documentary and fiction, have told before, but with more insight or panache.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAlison WillmoreNew York Magazine/Vulture
An underwhelming addiction story that feels not just familiar, but more focused on the bad-boy swagger of its main character than his actual recovery.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJeannette CatsoulisNew York Times
Yet another ruin-and-rehab tale, one that initially tantalizes then flatly disappoints.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJohnny OleksinskiNew York Post
James' inner life and his experience is made up of a million little pieces, but in this flat film we get just one.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreVadim RizovFilmmaker Magazine
Pieces ends up diluted, yet another trip to rehab and redemption, with some encouraging words from a therapist on the way; it will not remind anyone why this weird saga unfolded in the first place.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreTodd JorgensonCinemalogue
... hampered by its reliance on clichés about addiction and rehabilitation that squander a committed lead performance by Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreShannon McGrewNightmarish Conjurings
I'm glad a film like A Million Little Pieces exists because it's a reminder that life with an addiction doesn't have to be hopeless.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreChris BumbrayJoBlo's Movie Network
If you're a fan of the book it's worth seeing, but the memoir is, unfortunately, a product of its time that's hard to adapt
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