The film is a tonal mess, mostly presented as a romantic comedy, although it’s really almost entirely about domestic violence

Full Review | Dec 12, 2024

It’s rom-com meets trauma porn, deafeningly emotive in a way that for some will be too much and for others precisely what they are looking for.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Whatever your issues with the source material, Hoover at least tried to dig into the generational cycle of abuse. Baldoni wants to couch all that in rom-com trappings, diluting the impact and ending up with something more mawkish than moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2024

…the violence done by men to women is such an omnipresent element of today’s daily news cycle that it usually goes uncommented on; IEWU puts these elements front and centre, and that fresh, fearless content seems to be what audiences want to see in droves

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2024

Rich in character and incident, but tonal inconsistencies and some narrative fudging blunt its overall impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2024

The film appears well-intentioned, but it’s inability to keep its focus on Lily, to center her journey absent the will-they-won’t-they rom-com elements, and to present the film with a coding of danger, makes the experience a vapid one ... .

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2024

It Ends with Us has an important message about domestic violence that it wants to get across, but sadly it ends up getting clumsily handled in a story that's buried under a pile of cliches & extreme coincidences.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 4, 2024

Weaknesses aside, there is a good movie within the faltering framework. Some scenes have believable strengths because Baldoni is a superb director. Even with a cluttered screenplay, he knows how to tell a story that holds your interest as well as it does.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2024

Based on the Colleen Hoover bestseller, Blake Lively’s ‘It Ends With Us’ is a tale of love, grief, abuse and rage that’s oddly disengaging

Full Review | Oct 4, 2024

It Ends with Us is a mess, but a fairly watchable one.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2024

The movie wants to be a form of comfort food, assuring us that everything would be all right if only women embraced their traditional roles as nurturers, mothers, and healers, but it all just tastes stale.

Full Review | Sep 17, 2024

This smart and sensitive movie version will more than satisfy the millions who’ve picked it up and found a bible of sorts for abuse survivors.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2024

The film’s theme of how abuse occurs in generational cycles is noteworthy as we see Lily’s stalwart goal of breaking that cycle--excellent messages about the topic of physical abuse and self-worth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 8, 2024

The plot... along with the co-mingled romantic comedy tropes, [date] and [cheapen] the film drastically, despite the care it brings to its more sensitive elements.

Full Review | Sep 7, 2024

It’s an unapologetic melodrama through and through, fully aware that we do still go to the movies to watch impossibly gorgeous people existing well behind their means living ordinary lives with relatable problems.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 5, 2024

This melodrama on spousal assault forgoes psychological and character complexities for congenial viewing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2024

After more than two hours, It Ends With Us gets to [Lily's] self-actualization, but it’s difficult to shake the feeling that it could have gotten there much faster and more meaningfully.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2024

Until a crucial confrontation scene, “It Ends With Us” suggests too many outs for comfort. Lively doesn’t reveal the most important stories in her life and ends up reliving them. Baldoni’s character keeps his cards close to the vest, too.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2024

Those looking for a genre-redefining cinematic masterpiece or expecting a line-by-line remake will leave the theater disappointed. But those searching for a good enough drama with a few standout performances will get their money’s worth...

Full Review | Aug 30, 2024

A well-acted, though somewhat overlong romantic drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2024