There’s some quality production design, and the occasional amiable scene. But as a whole, the movie is dull and saccharine, despite the efforts of its magnetic lead actors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

But that ending. It doesn’t quite kill the good that comes before it, but it comes mighty close.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Five Feet Apart suffers from the same clichés as most of the decade’s YA romantic dramas while having to stomach the manipulation of trivializing an illness that can be terminal.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Five Feet Apart uses illness as a plot device to heighten emotions rather than simply allowing compelling characters to tell their own stories.

| Original Score: B | Aug 26, 2021

No one in the project can overcome the sick-flick genre's cliches...

| Jul 22, 2021

Although I appreciate the authenticity the movie wishes to shove down my throat, I wish it gave me something to take away, a moment to save in the filmic moments that reel away in my mind.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 7, 2021

This young-adult tear-jerker is bogged down by cliche and a lack of vision, buoyed only by a fresh performance from lead actress Haley Lu Richardson and an honest conversation about the loneliness of disease.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2021

The predictability of its plot and sweet but adolescent love story may infect the older audience members with chronic eye roll syndrome.

| Jan 28, 2021

There's a sincerity here that undoes many of its excesses, thanks largely to the grounded chemistry of its leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2020

The film never really delivers unless you're under 13 years old due to the tone of artificiality overlaying the entire story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

I blame the writing for this colossal miscalculation, but I'll forever associate one of the most gifted young actors working today with this schmaltzy nonsense; she and the other actors raise the material to a degree, but that's about as good as it gets.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2020

Commendably highlights the issues of Cystic Fibrosis sufferers, you'll learn a thing or two about this illness as well as be sappily charmed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2020

I hated this movie.

| May 21, 2020

It wasn't an enjoyable watch.

| May 21, 2020

Ask any high school teacher - or, for that matter, any high schooler - and they'll tell you the surest way to get two teenagers to fall in love is to tell them they can't see each other.

| Nov 22, 2019

There's a million books like this and a million movies like this, where people are beautiful -- but they're sick!

| Sep 23, 2019

Despite its best efforts including those from Haley Lu Richardson with a brilliant performance, the film inevitably begins to sink. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 16, 2019

Ultimately, Five Feet Apart was peak emotional manipulation...but, like, it worked.

| Jul 29, 2019

If a little too much of the dialogue sounds like a teenage inspirational instagram post, then at least the film knows its target audience

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2019

There are parts that are very Hallmark movie and schmaltzy. And yet you do end up being swept along with the emotions in it because the acting is so note-perfect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2019