Release dates
December 18, 2018
80 months agoBlu-ray / VOD / DVD
Released
Life Itself release date
The movie Life Itself is already released on Cinema, Blu-ray, VOD and DVD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 16 reviews, Life Itself gets an average review score of 30
Life Itself is as annoying and affected as its title
2458d ago
There’s too much going on. Maybe if Fogelman had a season of television to delve into these characters’ connections and inject the vigor of Will’s chaotic mind into the quieter passages that follow, Life Itself could be great.
2458d ago
That being said, there is probably an audience for this sort of flick. “Life Itself” will play with viewers who love pointless melodrama and calculated buttons to make you tear up over characters you’ve only been introduced to 20 minutes before.
2458d ago
From the creator of This Is Us comes a melodrama even more dire than life itself
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'This Is Us' creator's treacly 'Life Itself' is an emotionally manipulative turkey
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Life is complicated. “Life Itself” is convoluted. Not to be confused with the title of Roger Ebert’s memoir, Dan Fogelman’s “Life Itself” packs in enough narrative twists and turns to leave viewers with a sense of emotional whiplash. One tragedy bleeds into another so often that the events begin to blur. How like life itself.
2458d ago
A large ensemble cast including Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening and Antonio Banderas navigates love, loss and complicated human connections in this multigenerational drama from Dan Fogelman.
2458d ago
A cornball contrivance connects an unruly plethora of stories told with every distracting technique in the screenwriter's handbook.
2458d ago
Unreliability is a fascinating and tricky conceit for novelists and filmmakers. It should not be confused with bad writing. There is a lot of that here, and also, to confuse matters further, a lot of good acting.
2458d ago
Life Itself is an emotional mugging, not a movie.
2458d ago
Apparently scripted by an especially depthless range of greetings cards, this big screen effort from the creator of This Is Us dishes out tragedy to Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening - and its audience
2458d ago
Life Itself? Choose death.
2458d ago
“This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman’s gimmicky play for your heartstrings wastes good actors and overdoses on tragedy
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Somehow, all these transparent and egregious screenwriterly contrivances never tie back to the film’s theory about unreliable narration.
2458d ago
Dan Fogelman’s multi-stacked melodrama goes up in a blaze of crass tear-jerking, unrelenting tragedy porn and unearned self-congratulation
2458d ago
Life Itself May Just Sap the Life Out of You
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