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This has to be one of the most glacially paced movies I have seen in a long time. Far too much time is spent showing us the pain and mourning that a group of "friends" is going through a full year after one of them is lost to a mysterious suicide. Their pain is so magnified as to seem only a few days fresh, but a full year later? That stretches credibility pretty far.

Unfortunately, the ending feels so cheap, contrived, and sudden that the earlier slow pace now seems to have been stretched out only to fill the length required to qualify as a movie instead of a TV episode.

Georgia Lock seems like she might be a decent movie actress, but unfortunately, her character in this movie is so shallow and one-dimensional that it's impossible to tell. Hopefully she'll get a chance to show better what she's capable of doing with a higher-quality script.

This movie was as fun to watch as anything that I have seen in a long time. Bel Powley was feisty, spunky, hilarious and also very touching throughout the whole movie. I see where Hailee Steinfeld was originally supposed to play the title role, but as wonderfully as Powley did, I'm actually glad Steinfeld was unavailable. I will undoubtedly enjoy watching this one again.

I have no idea why the other reviews for this movie are so negative unless they're "planted" reviews. This was not, by any means, the worst movie I've ever seen, far from it. The plot develops slowly, but not unlike the plot for HAL 9000 in 2001 A Space Odyssey also developing slowly, with an inexorability that grows more and more disturbing as the movie progresses. I've seen plenty of movies with cheap/shoddy CGI and effects, but the effects in this movie were very well done and had a good sense of realism within the narrative. Lastly, I thought Alexys Gabrielle did a very good job of portraying her character. I've seen countless instances of actors/actresses obviously delivering lines they were uncomfortable with or simply had no idea how to do it with any degree of realism, but that is not the case here. I hope other people will give this movie ratings that are considerably more fair to the production quality that went into it.