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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
À la vie is a gentle toast – the film sticks to its subtle tone, which is both its strength and its weakness.
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What are critics saying?
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
Absent any real sense of who these three women are as individuals, most of their behavior is reduced to what feels like tics that are meant to illuminate character in a rather crude way.
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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
More resonant in theory than in execution, the post-Holocaust drama To Life never truly embraces the promise of its title or the roiling emotion beneath its surface.
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The New York Times by Helen T. Verongos
There is a delicate beauty to this movie and its visual composition.
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Given the complexity of everything the characters went through, it’s a shame to witness their lives reduced to a sequence of TV-movie moments.