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The Life Before Her Eyes Reviews

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• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano

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

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• 60

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen

  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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• 40

  out of 100

  The New York TimesStephen 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."

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• 40

  out of 100

  Variety

  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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• 33

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa 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.

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• 20

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe 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.

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