TheWrap by Inkoo Kang

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.

Entertainment Weekly by Leah Greenblatt

A movie about love and loss that doesn’t dissolve into soft focus when the hard parts start.

Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan

What makes Miss You Already work (when it does work, which is most of the time) is that it shows imperfect characters dealing imperfectly with situations ranging from the maritally frustrating to the existentially overwhelming.

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.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

To accuse it of being manipulative is like accusing it of being in color. The genre is melodrama. The assault on the tear ducts and heartstrings is part of the contract, and the movie more than holds up its end of the bargain.

Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones

Director Catherine Hardwicke doesn’t need that easily-cut path through long grass; she already has a willing cast and story to get to the guts-splaying.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Kate Taylor

In a big, engrossing performance that is the film’s chief delight, the reliable Australian actress Toni Collette plays Milly.

Slant Magazine by R. Kurt Osenlund

It winningly reflects how to utilize quiet understandings and, yes, very loud laughter.

RogerEbert.com by Susan Wloszczyna

If a well-intentioned, occasionally funny, often moving yet nonetheless flawed "womance."

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

Barrymore and Collette bring life and charm to a screenplay that needs all the life and charm it can get.

Time Out

Ultimately Miss You Already feels like chick lit for the big screen: a frothy, contrived confection with careful doses of sexy, silly and sad. But those sad bits will get you in the end.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

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.

Empire by Ian Freer

It’s a sad, emotive, important subject but it deserves a more detailed, heartfelt film than this.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Collette is a potent, unsentimental presence and Hardwicke and Banks know how to connect with the audience.

Screen Daily 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.

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.

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.

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.

Variety

Helmer Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight,” “Thirteen”) brings energy and craft to screenwriter-thesp Morwenna Banks’ maudlin, occasionally shameless script.