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7.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17

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  1. PaulB.
    Apr 20, 2008
    2
    Uma Thurman continues her losing streak in a poorly-constructed script punctuated with ridiculous lines such as, "I don't know about you but I could use some soup!"
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  2. ChadS.
    May 2, 2008
    8
    When the good girl met the bad girl in Catherine Hardwicke's "Thirteen", the bad girl exerted her will on the good girl, and the good girl became bad. The good girl was played by Evan Rachel Wood. This time, in "The Life Before Her Eyes", she's the bad girl, who meets a good girl, and she becomes a good girl, too. The good girl is played by Eva Amurri. Diana McFee(Uma Thurman) can thank Maureen for the woman she is today. But where is Maureen? The last time we saw her, she was in a high school girls' bathroom with her best friend and the gunman. Since "The Life Before Her Eyes" predicates itself as a sort of "Donnie Darko" for women, Maureen's fate isn't wholly determinisitic, because the past is present, the past is fluid, as Diana rewrites her history, her husband and child's history, and especially, Maureen's history from a contemporary epoch(the weeks leading up to the fifteenth anniversary of the massacre) that runs parallel to the past. Like Alejandro Agresti's "The Lake House", this "My So-Called Elephant" is sci-fi for women who don't like sci-fi.… Expand
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  3. Richard.
    May 4, 2008
    10
    The critics could not be more wrong. This is the most profound and emotional film of the year so far. It's sad that many people will not see it based on the copycat critics reviews.
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  4. Brynhotness
    Apr 24, 2008
    10
    I thought this movie was phenomenal and i watched some of this movie was shot on the street right next to mine and i think all fo the actors and actresses did a teriffic job!!!!!!!!
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  5. Enrique
    May 4, 2008
    4
    Barely convincing. Uma Thurmann is fine but the script is too contrived. A big disappointment.
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Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 25
  3. Negative: 11 out of 25
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    60
    Boasting two terrific performances by Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood as the adult and teenage versions of the same character.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    40
    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.
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  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    20
    In a vile-movie competition between Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" and Vadim Perelman's The Life Before Her Eyes, Haneke's film would win--but only because he's working so much harder to be noxious.
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