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The Lovely Bones

2009

Peter Jackson

Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci ...

6.1

25,064

Fantasy. Drama. Mystery Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement") a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.

	Media	Author	Review
		Richard Corliss Time	"Engrossing, often enthralling movie (...) The plot has a few pitfalls. (...) But the movie is packed with privileged moments"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A deplorable film (...) The makers of this film seem to have given slight thought to the psychology of teenage girls (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"Peter Jackson's infatuation with fancy visual effects mortally wounds 'The Lovely Bones.' (...) Jackson undermines solid work from a good cast with show-offy celestial evocations that severely disrupt the emotional connections with the characters."
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"The film certainly plays well enough as a melodrama-cum-revenge thriller. (...) is not without its tension, humor and compelling details. But it's also a simpler, more button-pushing tale that misses the joy and heartbreak of the original [book]."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"As a pictorial artifact 'The Lovely Bones' is gorgeous. It pulses and blooms and swells with bright hues and strange vistas. But it does not move"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Instead of a compelling nightmare, [Jackson] has created a bland, girly-sparkly dream (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Tasha Robinson AV Club	"Everything about Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s bestselling book 'The Lovely Bones' is worked out to an excruciating fault (...) And yet [it] is often moving, almost in spite of itself"
		Ian Freer Empire	"Underrated, 'The Lovely Bones' does a great job with revered, complex source material (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"[One wishes] wish that the entire film were as effective as [its] best moments, but that was not to be."

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