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Helmer Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight,” “Thirteen”) brings energy and craft to screenwriter-thesp Morwenna Banks’ maudlin, occasionally shameless script.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Village Voice by Amy Nicholson
Toni Collette rages through Catherine Hardwicke's cancer weepie Miss You Already like a fire in a chain restaurant. The film around her is good, welcoming fare, the kind that snobs always underestimate.
50
Screen International by Charles Gant
This tender, gently funny depiction of female friendship benefits from nicely committed work from lead actresses Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore plus distinctive locations in London and Yorkshire, but suffers from unconvincing moments and struggles to convert diverse story elements into an especially compelling whole.
60
It’s a sad, emotive, important subject but it deserves a more detailed, heartfelt film than this.
90
Unflinching yet unburdened, Miss You Already is like the best kind of hug: warm, reassuring, cathartic, and a fleeting but vital reminder that there’s at least as much good in the world as there is bad.
42
The Playlist by Kenji Fujishima
Worse than offering no especially fresh angles on its cliched material, however, are the trite characterizations of the two lead female characters.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
The sad truth is that, however engaging they are as performers elsewhere, neither Collette nor Barrymore are at their best here.
60
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Collette is a potent, unsentimental presence and Hardwicke and Banks know how to connect with the audience.
60
The film could have done with a richer sense of what Milly and Jess really see in each other. It’s as if Barrymore and Collette have been flung into this relationship unprepared, and must hustle to suggest there’s much of a history.