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

Overwhelming dislike - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 6 out of 7
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  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Andrew Grant
    40
    Clichéd and formulaic.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    25
    Makes little attempt to be credible or original. And the acting is poor.
  3. 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.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    20
    Misery pile-up.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
    20
    The whole thing plays like a bad Equity-waiver one-act.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    10
    This laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Andrew Barker
    10
    A waste of a talented, earnest cast, this borderline offensive indie, set for an Oct. 2 limited release, shouldn't take up too much valuable theater space before fading away.

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User Score
2.8 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 2 out of 2
  1. 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.… Full Review »
  2. 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.… Full Review »
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