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Bai Ling, Debi Mazar, Dana Delany, Angela Sarafyan, and Jesse Garcia in A Beautiful Life (2008)

Metacritic reviews

A Beautiful Life

13

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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
  • 40
    Time Out
    Time Out
    Clichéd and formulaic.
  • 25
    San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
    San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
    The bad news is that the characters and situations are platitudes and the story is so heavy-handed that the film is hard to sit through.
  • 25
    New York PostV.A. Musetto
    New York PostV.A. Musetto
    Makes little attempt to be credible or original. And the acting is poor.
  • 20
    Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
    Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
    Misery pile-up.
  • 20
    Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The whole thing plays like a bad Equity-waiver one-act.
  • 10
    Variety
    Variety
    A waste of a talented, earnest cast, this borderline offensive indie, set for an Oct. 2 limited release, shouldn't take up too much valuable theater space before fading away.
  • 10
    The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
    The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
    This laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders.
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