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Miss You Already
NC16 (SINGAPORE)
2015
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3.0
And sure enough, the promise barely lasts out the scene.This is a movie about personal drama.
Av Club
2.0
Advertisement Tonally, Miss You Already is a slapdash mess of achingly sincere moments and tasteless jokes.
Av Club
3.0
Miss You Already type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa PG 13 runtime 112 minutes Wide Release Date 11/06/15 performer Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette ..
EW
3.1
And the downpour nicely foreshadows the tears that will flow soon enough.
Rogerebert
3.0
Moving, frustrating, and ultimately affecting, Miss You Already is anchored by strong performances from Barrymore and Collette.
Common Sense Media
3.0
Despite having the integrity to dwell on hospital visits that holiday moviegoers will probably prefer to tune out, Miss You Already tests patience wit ..
Variety
3.0
Miss You Already is one gut punch followed by the next, but theres enough emotional salvation to navigate us over a sea of down notes and sad tears.
We Got This Covered
3.5
Tears may feel cheap to some, but for me, they felt earned by director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Morwenna Banks.
We Got This Covered
4.5
Director Catherine Hardwicke doesnt need that easily cut path through long grass; she already has a willing cast and story to get to the guts splaying ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
Ultimately Miss You Already feels like chick lit for the big screen: a frothy, contrived confection with careful doses of sexy, silly and sad.
Time Out
3.0
But its hard to remember many mainstream films dealing so frankly with the subject of mastectomy (only Susanne Biers wonderful Love Is All You Need sp ..
The Guardian
3.0
Its very heartfelt and honesty forces me to admit that at one moment it got under my irony guard and I was uncool enough to choke up.
The Guardian
2.0
What could have been a charming and funny look at the relationship between two women in their 40s becomes a disease of the week movie.
The Guardian
3.1
Many viewers will likely call Toni Collette brave for shaving her head in Catherine Hardwickes cancer themed dramedy Miss You Already, but one wonders ..
2.5
I watched it dry eyed to the end.But I am apparently incapable of appreciating its finer points.
3.0
This tender, gently funny depiction of female friendship benefits from nicely committed work from lead actresses Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore plus ..
Screen Daily
2.0
Its at this point that the movie finally starts to be a story about believably flawed people instead of case studies with costumes and arch one liners ..
The Hollywood Reporter
3.0
A heartfelt example of the cinematic tradition derivatively referred to as a weepie, Miss You Already is, by design, about feelings.But its about touc ..
3.5
Their conversation is fast and playful and full of sarcastic, tension defusing jokes.
The New York Times
3.2
Yet despite this excess of sentimentality, the scenes are salvaged by the committed performances of Collette and Barrymore.
Paste Magazine
3.0
Paddy Considine, Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore in Miss You Already Credit: Nick Wall Catherine Hardwicke, director of Thirteen and Twilight, doesnt ..
Telegraph
4.0
Given that the women at the center of the comic drama are played by Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore charismatic performers who can effortlessly embod ..
1.3
Is this really an honest portrait of a beautiful and intense friendship between women
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Its a sad, emotive, important subject but it deserves a more detailed, heartfelt film than this.
3.0
Equally so.In the end, Miss You Already is still an enjoyable film that knows its audience.
Cinema Blend
3.1
Miss You Already is a wise movie much spoiled by its melodramatic conclusion.
The Globe And Mail
3.1
Director Catherine Hardwicke, working from a script by Morwenna Banks, uses jerky handheld cameras to give this earnest weepie some edge, and Barrymor ..
Philly
2.5
It still fills a gaping hole in the middle of our cinematic psyches, a movie that lets us cry, but laugh through the tears.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.0
The screenplay by Morwenna Banks offers a tale of cancer and friendship, taking on the impossible bonds of life with a great degree of honesty, urging ..
Blu Ray
3.8
Miss You Already admirably gives us the latter.This is not one of those movies in which the dying character occasionally coughs to hint that the chara ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
Miss You Already may be blatant in going for the tears, but it doesnt feel manipulative, its cancer patient never sainted, its wistful conclusion well ..
4.0
Much better.It takes a kind of inspired madness from the director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), writer Morwenna Banks and lead actresses Drew Barrym ..
The Times
2.0
This is a weepie so wildly manipulative that it is bound to provoke an allergic reaction in many viewers.
Independent
4.5
But the beaming Barrymore is essential to what makes the film exhilaratingly good natured: its sense of humor.
The Wrap
1.3
Basically, screenwriter Morwenna Banks hasnt really delivered a story.
News Day
4.0
Collette and Barrymore both give their strongest onscreen performances to date.
Film Journal
3.1
But the film belongs to Barrymore and Collette, who generate a palpable BFF chemistry that will defy you not to be choked up by the time the credits r ..
New York Post
3.1
It adds up to a pretty accurate portrait of a flawed, warts and all friendship, but it keeps Miss You Already from achieving the emotional connection ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.0
This isnt to say contemporary audiences dont enjoy the occasional weepie.
Az Central
3.0
Miss You Already recasts the teenage bond as positive and all encompassing.
Smh
3.5
For those who have lost someone, it will bring back awful memories.
Smh
4.5
Its sharp, funny, occasionally outrageous, brutally honest and, yeah, itll make you tear up, maybe even cry.
Mountain X
4.0
A movie about cancer doesnt need the stakes amplified more than they are already.
Npr
4.5
So this isnt a Cancer Movie, though there is plenty that is cancer related. (
2.5
R.E.M. replaces Bette Midlers anthem in this Beaches like weeper, but the tears will flow just the same among pals sharing a bucket of popcorn and a m ..
Toronto Star
4.0
Across the board, the performances are terrific: superbly understated and fabulously real.
Daily Mail
2.0
No film suffers from a lack of originality alone but there are too many other contrivances here, above all that intense brand of middle aged, middle c ..
Daily Mail
4.0
Make no mistake, this is a love story as tender, passionate and powerful as any youre likely to see.
Flim List
5.0
Its a rich, warm and moving chick flick with an upbeat slant that will make you laugh as well as cry, as it celebrates the special bond girlfriends sh ..
2.0
Unfortunately, the cliched tale never looks at the substantive sympathies that bind friends together, despite Hardwickes attention to the womens unsqu ..
New Yorker
2.0
My hopes were high a British Beaches! but whatever promise there was on paper has sadly not translated to the screen.
Express
3.0
Barrymores Jess especially shines in these moments with an easygoing, familial charm that recognizes the darkness of the situation without feeling pat ..
The Film Stage
2.5
If this is your kind of thing, you may have already bought your tickets to enjoy a slice of friendship fantasy and a good cry.
Chicago Tribune
2.0
If youre going to make a movie about best friends, you need to give them more ways to relate to each other than opening their mouths wide and squealin ..
Uproxx
4.5
(Imagine if it were 30 years between lone wolf action flicks or superhero movies.Or between man versus nature movies like Everest or The Martian.
Flickfilosopher
3.0
What really sets the film apart, however, is its unusually sincere effort to chart the progress of breast cancer.
The Irish Times
3.0
Instead of allowing these characters to surprise us in ways that would make these characters feel like three dimensional human beings, screenwriter Mo ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
The tears flow easily, but the movie doesnt really accomplish much else, and while Collette throws herself into her performance as a dying woman, Barr ..
Las Vegas Weekly
3.0
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Standard
3.8
Every second of this works, and even if nothing is shocking that didnt make my reactions less genuine.I could have done without Barrymores voiceover.
Movie Freak
3.0
Their honest performances give the film a warmth that rises above some of its more labored moments.
Detroit News
3.0
For if you can make it through the stretches where Miss You Already gets it wrong and it must be said none of these slip ups constitute any crimes aga ..
Herald Sun
3.0
The soundtrack to this adventure could so easily have been something banal and sentimental, but its not.
Hey U Guys
3.0
Miss You Already is about matters of life and death, but not in the immediate, exaggerated way a lot of movies are.Its about the enormity of ordinary ..
Oregon Live
2.0
Fans of Hardwickes groundbreaking Thirteen will be disappointed by this cheesy, pandering weepie about two lifelong friends living in England.
Now Toronto
4.5
Its a flawed but touching tribute to female friendship and the fierce love that can exist between women and thats a rare thing on screen.
Film Ink
2.0
Toni Collette rages through Catherine Hardwickes cancer weepie Miss You Already like a fire in a chain restaurant.The film around her is good, welcomi ..
La Weekly
4.0
Truly, asking anyone with a Y chromosome to enjoy this tearjerker is like asking a cat to savour a cold bath.
Mirror
2.5
It may not sound like it, but Miss You Already attempts to be a dramedy.
Nz Herald
2.0
Theres a lot to recommend this movie.Just be sure and bring your Kleenex with you.
Cleve Land
3.0
July Jung skilfully keeps you guessing in a film that might move slowly but is rich in sexual and psychological tension.
Independent Ie
4.0
And by keeping everything so funny and honest, its even more moving than expected.
Contact Music
3.8
The movie just barely succeeds at not falling over that line, but it does succeed.
Christianity Today
3.0
Its the gallows humour delivered with warmth by Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper and Paddy Considine that prevents this becoming unbearably ma ..
The Sun
3.0
The movie might stumble toward its inevitable finish, but darned if Collette and Barrymore in all their manipulative glory dont demand your tears.So p ..
Patriot Ledger
3.0
By the end, even the hardest of hearts will find it difficult to hold back the tears.
Scmp
3.0
But Miss You Already has the courage to at least suggest frequently hidden realms of friendship and fear.
Straight
4.0
Sometimes, good execution of the tried and tested is what viewers need.
Straits Times
3.0
A funny tough film about not just cancer but the messy segue into adulthood and responsibility.
Metro New York
2.0
The narrative milestones of Millys cancer including head shaving and chemo induced puking are well worn in cinema, yet its the stale and predictable t ..
One Room With A View
2.0
To this end, the big moment of crisis comes when the newly pregnant Jess has complications that force her to take more of a backseat role in crisis ma ..
Scots Man
2.0
Theres a jagged energy and a rawness to it. Miss You Already jerks its tears honestly.
Movie Mezzanine
4.5
Although it does not stint on the heartbreak and wracking cancer treatment (handled with an admirably dry forthrightness), its quite amazing how much ..
Film Journal International ..
3.0
There will be lots of tears, lots of sobbing, and plenty of spent Kleenex. Fortunately, Hardwicke, Barrymore, and Collette make the journey getting th ..
3.1
But Miss You Already is really a story of a lifelong friendship between two women.
National Post
3.0
Once the shadow of cancer is cast it never goes a way in a story that must be applauded for its brutally honest depictions of the treatment required t ..
Sky
3.0
There is nothing apologetic about the way Hardwicke depicts Millys vanity and neediness.
The New Paper
2.5
Director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight; Thirteen) strains to pump warmth and humour into the piece; too often moments that reach for realism stumble i ..
Tiny Url
3.0
Drew and Collette make a touching screen team, and Jacqueline Bisset, almost unrecognizable with platinum blonde hair, is a welcome antidote to over s ..
Movie Mom
3.5
Youll be just fine.Miss You Already is a cancer movie, and that immediately makes it sound like its either going to be dire and depressing or sugar co ..
Toronto Sun
3.0
Its a proposal about feelings and finds its audience in every person who want to be moved, have a good time, and even reflect a little.
3.0
Miss You Already is about facing the mortality of your great love; a life long best friend.
Graffiti With Punctuation
3.1
And even when that story is predictable, the characters keep it fresh.
Cambridge Day
2.0
Its a bleak, relentless movie, acted with a steely eyed intensity that makes it feel important, though certainly not enjoyable.
Willamette Week
3.8
Miss You Already must sound like a major downer from its synopsisand it is sad, certainlybut director Catherine Hardwicke brings resonating hope and m ..
The Film File
3.5
Miss You Already has a moment where it gets lost with a 250 mile trek to the Yorkshire Moors that creates unnecessary conflict.
Liver Pool Echo
3.0
Catherine Hardwickes comedy drama could be filed under that cringeworthy industry category, chick flick... But the two leads are the no nonsense Drew ..
Herald Scotland
3.0
As much as I disliked Miss You Already, I have to admit that I was rather taken with Barrymores performance as Jess.
City Beat
5.0
Download Bring your tissues and your bestie along for this raw yet beautiful filmits one you shouldnt miss.
Bust
2.5
At funerals, youre often told to avoid mournful tears, and instead celebrate a life well lived.
The Muse Jezebel
4.5
Yet, what could easily be a depressing slog, tugging on our emotions to earn narrative validity, ends up being a rather uplifting tale of friendship a ..
3.0
Whether youre a guy or a gal, if you watch MISS YOU ALREADY, youre likely in for an impressive, cathartic cry.
3.5
If you need another reason to go see it, its Collette. Glamorous, outrageous and brave, her Milly is full of life and enormously engaging.
Daily Telegraph
3.0
These types of exercises feel as sincere as the tears of a newly crowned Miss America.
Ex Press
3.0
When the tensions mount between friends, its hard to feel the urgency or vitality of the conflict because screenwriter Morwenna Banks script never tru ..
My States Man
4.5
An intelligent script that mixes drama and comedy in a subtle way, making this a visual and emotional delight.
Excelsior
1.5
If you see the movie, its unflinching portrait of breast cancer will stay with you.
Womens Voices For Change
2.5
Its not a deep exploration of mortality.Starring Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore as lifelong besties, it simply aims to capture peoples interest in l ..
Trib
3.5
Barrymore and Collette often seem like theyre fighting with the tacky material, but its a fight they ultimately win; however many times you roll your ..
3.5
Miss You Already is not one of those films, and I wont be forgetting it anytime soon.
Newshub (NZ)
2.0
Despite the earnest approach from its two stars (who also serve, with Christopher Smith, as producers), there isnt anything fresh in the story.
Film International
3.0
Separately, the characters dont hold up because theyre more one dimensionalMilly comes off as extremely shallow and selfish, while Jesss brief struggl ..
Movies With Mae
4.0
That said, a film like this stands or falls on whether it delivers the goods in the tears department, and the answer here is an unequivocal yes.This i ..
Wow 247
4.5
A film that doesnt have a perfect story but achieves its goal of showing real life in a moving way without being preachy.
1.5
But theres only so much a triple digit moisturizer can repair, and Barrymore and Collette must jump through the hoops of Morwenna Banks limp script, u ..
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