Summary
The Rotten Tomatoes audience score of Blake Lively’s new romantic dramaIt Ends With Usmarks a new career high. Directed by fellow star Justin Baldoni,It Ends With Usadapts Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, which revolves around a young girl named Lily, her love interest Ryle, and an old flame, Atlas, who are all caught up in a love triangle. Lively and Baldoni play Lily and Ryle, respectively, and they’re joined by Jenny Slate, Amy Morton, and Brandon Sklenar, who plays Atlas.
Now, according toRotten Tomatoes,It Ends With Uscurrently boasts an audience score of 94%, the highest ever for a movie starring Lively. The closest that any of her recent works has come to matching this number is 2010’sThe Town, which currently has an audience score of 85%.
Audiences Have Really Embraced It Ends With Us
Critics, Not So Much…
When Hoover released theIt Ends With Usnovelback in 2016, it got decent attention and sales, but it wasn’t until a couple of years later that social media helped it really take off. It is easy to see why the book garnered so much attention, and it’s also not surprising that audiences have loved Baldoni’s adaptation. The sappy, charming love triangle that drives the movie is exactly the sort of stuff that sells.
It Ends With Ushas performed well since it debuted at the box office. Currently,it has grossed $80 million worldwide, already well surpassing its production budget of $25 million. However, while audiences are loving this new release, critics feel a little differently about it. On Rotten Tomatoes,the movie’s critics score is a more modest 59%with an average rating of 5.5/10, suggesting thatIt Ends With Usreviewsare pretty much split.
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Some critics have praised Baldoni’s adaptation ofIt Ends With Usfor not romanticizing abuse, one of the major reasons Hoover’s source material has received criticism, as well as for Lively and Baldoni’s impressive, moving performances. However,other critics have pointed out that the movie fails to flesh out most of its characters, especially the supporting cast, and argued that it fails to properly interpret the source material on screen. Though the film is already a hit, it remains to be seen whether these reviews impact its long-term box office success, or whether word-of-mouth will win out.
It Ends With Us
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Based on Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, It Ends With Us is a drama-romance film directed by Justin Baldoni. The film follows a recent college graduate named Lily, who meets a man named Ryle and falls in love with him. However, a traumatic incident compounded with her former high-school sweetheart re-entering her life complicates her plans.
