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.

Weaknesses aside, there is a good movie within the faltering framework. Some scenes have believable strengths because Baldoni is a superb director. Even with a cluttered screenplay, he knows how to tell a story that holds your interest as well as it does.

Based on the Colleen Hoover bestseller, Blake Lively’s ‘It Ends With Us’ is a tale of love, grief, abuse and rage that’s oddly disengaging

It Ends with Us is a mess, but a fairly watchable one.

The film’s theme of how abuse occurs in generational cycles is noteworthy as we see Lily’s stalwart goal of breaking that cycle--excellent messages about the topic of physical abuse and self-worth.