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It Ends With Us: Rotten Tomatoes Critics React To Blake Lively's Movie
By JEREMY MATHAI
The story of “It Ends With Us” follows recent college graduate Lily Blossom Bloom (Lively), who has aspirations of opening her own floral shop and meeting the perfect guy.
The Washington Post's Amy Nicholson notes that the film "is an unwieldy yet compelling fusion of glittery fantasy and traumatic introspection," and "prone to tonal whiplash."
For Esther Zuckerman of Rolling Stone, the tonal issue comes up again, though she goes out of her way to praise the movie's throwback feel to an earlier model of filmmaking.
"The result is a mix of tones that doesn't always work [...] one where the mid-budget movie willing to delve into issues was a viable business model."
Anna McKibbin from Little White Lies points out how the film shares many of the same shortcomings of the book and calls it a "meandering, shallow examination of domestic abuse."