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Metascore®38 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    Of the two timelines, the one featuring the teenage Diana is more involving than the one featuring the adult version. Both lead actresses give fine performances, but Thurman has less material to work with. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Though atmospheric and occasionally suspenseful, its gimmickry keeps it from being transcendent. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Boasting two terrific performances by Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood as the adult and teenage versions of the same character. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Tribune | Sid Smith

    Beautiful, horrifying, exasperating and just plain weird. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Ella Taylor

    Moviegoers may mistake The Life Before Her Eyes for an unduly long L'Oreal commercial featuring softly lit film stars moving languidly with swinging hair through overbearingly premonitory weather. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Tidy, predictable, excruciatingly fussy in its details and lacking the tiniest glimmer of humor, The Life Before Her Eyes contradicts the director’s claim in the production notes that the movie “is not a perfectly ordered experience with clear causes and effects.” Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | John Anderson

    A femme-centric drama about the aftermath of a high school massacre, profoundly confusing "In Bloom" arrives at some very tenuous moral conclusions that might alienate much of its supposed target audience. Read full review

  • 33
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha Robinson

    Perelman's follow-up, The Life Before Her Eyes, finds him clumsily trying to outdo M. Night Shyamalan. Read full review

  • 33
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Perelman pays such cooing attention to surfaces that our response to violence carries no more importance than our response to the delicate jewelry around the adult Diana's neck. Read full review

  • 20
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Consider this more a consumer warning than a movie review: The Life Before Her Eyes will draw you in, then intrigue you, then bore you, then bewilder you, then make you crazy with its incessant flashbacks and flash forwards, and finally leave you feeling like the victim of a fraud. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 2.8 out of 5

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