A Beautiful Life
  • Release Date: Oct 2, 2009
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Metascore
13 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 7 Critics What's this?

User Score
2.8 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

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  • Summary: A Beautiful Life tells a heartwrenching love story against all odds about the encounter of two drifting souls and their escape into the harsh corners of life trying to avoid their dark pasts. Escaping her abusive past, Maggie finds a shelter near Esther, a stripper with singing aspirations. After staying the night with Esther’s illegal immigrant friend David, the two get closer and fall in love. Every bitter turn of the so called beautiful life leads them to turmoil of emotions and yet they find redemption in love again. (New Films International)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 6 out of 7
  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Andrew Grant
    40
    Clichéd and formulaic.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    25
    The bad news is that the characters and situations are platitudes and the story is so heavy-handed that the film is hard to sit through.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    25
    Makes little attempt to be credible or original. And the acting is poor.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    20
    Misery pile-up.

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  3. Negative: 2 out of 2
  1. Ulrich
    0
    Haven't seen the film but i just thought id say that the average of these 7 ratings is around 21.5...........how 13 was calculated is puzzling! A lot of the average scores on this site seem to be inaccurate.… Expand
  2. oscarr
    0
    Um Ulrich, I would like to let you know that the reason it isn't exact is because some critic's scores are more important than others, therefore it is not an exact average.… Expand

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