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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe movie maintains interest throughout and it’s ultimately satisfying, though with one qualification: The last minutes treat the story as though its whole purpose was to illustrate a social and political issue. It’s actually, for 98% of its running time, the story of a person — and it’s better that way. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperWhile the material at times veers close to exploitation, Knoll’s writing and Kunis’ performance ensure this is ultimately a tale of survival and perseverance — of a victim who refuses to let that label define her. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattLuckiest Girl is the kind of rainy-day thriller Netflix was made for: lurid, entertaining, patently silly. It's also kind of a mess, though at least some of that likely comes from condensing the busy, grisly events of a best-selling book into less than two hours of screen time. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe film . . . is good, not great; it never quite marries the skewering of New York elites with the true-crime feel of its grittier elements. But the performances keep it mostly on track. |
| IndieWireSamantha BergesonSmall edits could have propelled the film into a dark drama instead of something resembling a PSA. |
| Paste MagazineAmy AmatangeloThere’s a worthwhile story in here about the long-term effects of trauma, how society disregards and casts aside adolescent girls, how quick we are to blame the victim, how bullying can lead to terror—but all these messages gets lost in translation. |
| The New York TimesAmy NicholsonKunis’s alpha female appears at once ferocious and like a conspicuous sham. (Imagine Sheryl Sandberg as a “Scooby-Doo” villain.) Her performance carries the film — a fortunate break for the director Mike Barker, who has the near-impossible challenge of shepherding the tone from snark to painful sincerity. |
| The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonThe unquestionably well-intentioned and obviously deeply personal Luckiest Girl Alive would benefit from more mature guidance. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayBased on Jessica Knoll’s best-selling mystery novel, the Mike Barker-directed Luckiest Girl Alive — with a script by Knoll — falls into the trap of trying too hard to capture not just the book’s flashback-heavy plot but also its distinctive voice. |
| CNNBrian LowryLuckiest Girl Alive falls short of its promise, a reminder that, however ironic the title is intended to be, fortune tends to favor the bold. |
